Sentence examples for faces of defendants from inspiring English sources
In court, I see the exhausted, frustrated faces of defendants.
In a criminal trial, prosecution must prove the sometimes-difficult-to-prove element of intent, proving to the jury a negative or hostile mindset in the face of the defendant's more benign explanation.
With more than 80 percent of defendants facing criminal charges unable to afford to pay for lawyers, public defender systems have come to define most criminal justice systems in the United States.
And the lack of any family members in the audience -- a situation that roughly half of defendants face -- can further sully the accused.
The harder one is the overriding expression on the faces of many of the defendants brought into confront the consequences of their actions; it is not a look of remorse or contrition or even self-pity and anger but rather a sure sense of inevitability.
The 10 traders from Deutsche Bank and Barclays will be the largest group of defendants to face trial accused of fixing rates: a trial of six former employees of City interbank brokers is currently drawing to a conclusion in London.
The American justice system is facing similar questions about the treatment of defendants in terrorism cases, in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.
An account of a murder trial in Jacksonville, Fla., the film persistently stays in the faces of the 15-year-old defendant, Brenton Butler (who was acquitted), and his family; the dogged defense team; the prosecutor; and detectives assigned to the case.
Many dozens of defendants are convicted or take pleas in the face of similarly inconclusive evidence.
The defendants' lawyers argued that the faces of witnesses provided clues about the truthfulness of their testimony.
Clark insisted Polanski "knew the sentence he was facing...Twenty years in prison--or zero...Polanski knew the entire range of sentences he faced...Few defendants were ever more thoroughly warned of the sentence they faced and the power of the judge to impose it as Roman Polanski".
