Sentence examples for given accused from inspiring English sources

A relatively high level of acquittal in Scottish trials may have been due to the employment of defence lawyers in Scottish courts, a benefit not given accused witches in England.

Critics said it contradicted canon law and did not give accused priests due process.

Accused drilled the POWs and with the smallest mistakes or smallest provocations (refusal to give accused a cigarette) would punish them with beatings and slappings.

Critics had said the Dallas rules failed to give accused priests due process and allowed bishops to remove them from public ministry on the basis of accusations alone.

Some schools chose not to give accused students the complaint against them, notice of the factual basis of charges, the evidence gathered, or the identities of witnesses.

Since 2011, dozens of courts have made clear that schools that do not give accused students a fair process may also be committing sex discrimination under Title IX.

They reshaped the Bush order to give accused noncitizens before military tribunals the rights to counsel, public trial, appellate review and other protections in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

But an examination of his record, pieced together from interviews and a review of thousands of pages of court documents, show that he generally followed the prevailing practice of the church hierarchy, often giving accused priests the benefit of the doubt and being reluctant to remove them from ministry.

Habeas corpus, literally translated from Latin as "you must have the body," gives accused individuals a tool to wield against a potentially unjust government official or officer of the law.

"It gave him every protection that it gives anybody accused, and he was found guilty".

When an attorney has no such special knowledge or skill, the Sixth Amendment does not give the accused a right to have an attorney present.