Sentence examples for equivalent defendants from inspiring English sources

"When held 2 3 days, low-risk defendants are almost 40% more likely to commit new crimes before trial than equivalent defendants held no more than 24 hours," they wrote.

Low-risk defendants held 8 to 14 days are 51percentt more likely to recidivate within two years than equivalent defendants held one day or less.

We do know that people become more likely to reoffend the longer they are detained pretrial: With just two to three days of detention, low-risk defendants are almost 40percentt more likely to commit new crimes before trial than equivalent defendants held less than 24 hours.

The case made by Speaker Boehner for the convention funding is the politician's equivalent of the defendant who killed his parents and then pled for mercy on the grounds he was now an orphan.

282, 4 L.Ed.2d 259, a liberal view of papers filed by indigent and incarcerated defendants, as equivalents of notices of appeal, has been used to preserve the jurisdiction of the Courts of Appeals.

As Keith Cunningham-Parmexplainslains, "Human beings view the world in metaphoric terms.... Through metaphor, the immigrant becomes the alien, the alien becomes the illegal, and the illegal becomes the Mexican.... [R]eferring to... people as 'illegal aliens' is equivalent to referring to defendants awaiting trial as 'convicted criminals.'".

It may be said that requiring the defendant to focus attention on himself as an accident participant is not equivalent to requiring the defendant to focus attention on himself as a criminal suspect.

Last Tuesday, perhaps recognizing that the case had become a boondoggle, the prosecution downgraded the charges from criminal to civil, making the defendants' infractions the equivalent of parking tickets.

Defendants who had been held in jail for eight to fourteen days were fifty-one per cent more likely to commit a crime two years later than demographically similar defendants charged with equivalent crimes who were held no more than twenty-four hours.

As a second part of the second rationale for joint and several liability we are told that a plaintiff's culpability is not equivalent to that of a defendant.

Because of defendant's contribution to global warming and it effects, the plaintiff asks the defendant to make an equivalent contribution to the costs for security measures to protect his house against the flooding risk.