Sentence examples for for some defendants from inspiring English sources

The judge ordered medical tests for some defendants to try to verify the accusations, defense lawyers said.

Trial by jury has evolved over time, and the right for some defendants to choose it dates only from 1855.

Lawyers for some defendants said their clients were being prosecuted because of their family ties to Hamas leaders.

Under his proposal, the governor would lessen the minimum sentence for some defendants convicted of nonviolent drug crimes.

Once Judge Sadeq Nourani issues his judgment, which is almost certain to include jail terms for some defendants, there is bound to be an outcry.

But as long as the court is approving capital punishment for some defendants and not others, it should hold that 17- and 18-year-old offenders fall on the wrong side of the line.

Instead, the Court concluded that this penalty was being administered in a haphazard manner, with no coherent rationale for why some defendants were being executed while others convicted of similar crimes were not; in Justice Potter Stewart's words, the death sentences at issue were "cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual".

That trial has looked increasingly flawed, yet may conclude with death sentences for at least some defendants.

Many of these cases will be hard-fought courtroom battles that could last for years, but some defendants are known to be negotiating possible settlements.

The SEC never had the power to put people in jail, but those who have supported Rakoff argue that it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least some defendants, those accused of the most egregious fraud, to admit to wrongdoing before they throw money at a case to make it go away.

The Tuesday hearing was a reunion of sorts for some Oregon defendants, whose cases will be heard in a separate trial.