Sentence examples for half the defendants from inspiring English sources
A 2012 New York-based report found that in non-felony cases without bail, only half the defendants were convicted.
With only $1,000 to spend investigating and prosecuting each case, half the defendants will be acquitted.
We would be jeopardizing the safety of all New Yorkers by doing any less when we know that half the defendants in Rikers with ICE holds have been convicted of prior crimes — over half, of felonies — and more than half of the defendants have been charged with new felonies.
Pomona, Torrance, Norwalk and Lancaster are the toughest courts, with about half the defendants being convicted of murder.
"It's a particularly cynical part of the charged scheme that approximately half the defendants falsely claimed that their psychiatric disabilities were caused by the 9/11 attacks," Mr. Vance said at a news conference.
A hundred and fifteen people are accused of plotting the (successful) assassination of Laurent Kabila, the Democratic Republic of Congo's president, in January last year.When the trial opened on March 15th, there were not enough chairs, so half the defendants had to stand.
For the first time, large numbers of faculty and administrators and wives were present, dividing the sentiment of the spectators roughly one-half for the defendants, one-half for the deans.
(Professor Phillips studied 504 defendants indicted for the murders of 614 people. About half of the defendants were black; a quarter each were white and Hispanic).
"Given that it is often difficult for people to understand the charges against them, much less be able to answer them, it is an utter fantasy to believe that a system where almost half of the defendants have no legal assistance is producing just and fair results," said J. C. Salyer, staff lawyer for the Arab-American Family Support Center in Brooklyn.
