Sentence examples for grant defense from inspiring English sources
Turmoil in the jury room seemed to bring the Tyco International case to the verge of collapse, but rather than grant defense motions for a mistrial, the judge sent jurors home for the weekend and asked them to come back ready to try again on Monday morning.
According to The New York Times there are only nine states with laws that grant defense attorneys access to DNA databases.
Even so, Judge Connor didn't seem to believe that the prosecution had much of a case — she consistently granted defense motions, and overruled the prosecution — and neither did anyone else.
Last April, Judge Williams granted defense depositions on six issues, including whether prosecutors relied on statements by Mrs. Monroe that were involuntary and in violation of her constitutional rights and whether prosecutors erred in failing to disclose a witness who saw a black Bronco speeding out of Windsor's driveway the night of the death.
The judge agreed Usada was not a government agency but said she intended to grant the defense motion to produce the notes.
On Tuesday Justice Richard Buchter refused to grant the defense's request for a mistrial after it emerged that a Queens assistant district attorney, Frank DeGaetano, had belatedly handed over to the defense documents from the Nassau County district attorney's office detailing statements by several of the prosecution's witnesses.
The judge did, however, grant a defense request to show the jury part of a computerized video it made recently to support its argument that a malfunction caused the shotgun blast that killed a chauffeur in Mr. Williams's master bedroom two years ago.
But Dunham and his trainers must have noticed something lacking in Grant's defense, because the punch kept landing.
Heavier armors will grant more defense, but generally poorer resistances, and they will be, well, heavier!
On March 20, the Basmanny Court in Moscow granted the defense motion.
But the judge granted a defense request to keep another video under seal.
