Sentence examples for know the defendants from inspiring English sources

It wasn't long before newly elected Judge Karen Freeman-Wilson '85 began to know the defendants by their first names--they just kept coming back to her Gary, Ind., courtroom.

Court documents and dozens of interviews over several weeks with the girl's family, her friends and neighbors, as well as those who know the defendants, provide a more complete picture of what occurred as well as a deeper portrait of the victim.

These issues are exacerbated by the fact that, as the prosecutors know, the defendants and their representatives are largely unable to mount any significant public counterattacks.

That defense, however, was severely undercut by the strong-willed Rafeedie, a Los Angeles judge who took the case when all 11 judges on the San Diego federal bench recused themselves because they know the defendants.

I rarely if ever prosecute a case where I don't know the defendant, the witnesses, the law-enforcement officers".

One former detective, Stephen Anderson, who did not know the defendant, testified that officers in those units often planted drugs on innocent people.

I know the defendant's cage known as "the aquarium" in courtroom number seven well – they made it especially for me and Platon Lebedev [my ex-business partner], "just for us", after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) declared that keeping defendants behind bars is degrading and violates the convention on human rights.

"The dumb broad raises her hand and says, 'Judge, I know the defendant,' " Light recalled.

Arsenault's office performs both funtions, and by the time he gets to the courtroom he knows the defendants personally.

"This is a tight-knit place, and everyone knows each other," said Mr. Rolko, adding that he, like everyone else in town, knows the defendants personally.

Afterward, Whitaker noted that this was a mistake as anyone who had personally known the defendants usually disliked them.