Sentence examples for old defendants from inspiring English sources

In response, Judge Johnson wrote, "It is clear that the 'drafting' refers to counsel's efforts in cutting and pasting old defendants in place of new defendants".

I drew on the arguments of Professor David Cesarani: with very old defendants, investigations are harder, prosecutions riskier, convictions less sound and the unseemly public spectacle of a prostrate, ill man wheeled into a courtroom was counterproductive.

Subtitled "the confessions of a white widowed male", the novel is an intoxicating mix of apologia, prison diary and urgent appeal to the members of a jury by a 38-year old defendant, Dr Humbert Humbert, a professor of literature.

The 23-year old defendant denied his comments had any racial intent, and was found not guilty.

He also plans, in the coming months, to establish a pilot program of adolescent criminal courts, dedicated to handling the cases of 16- and 17-year-old defendants.

Last year, Connecticut stopped treating all 16-year-old defendants as adults, and next year will do the same for 17-year-olds.

Earlier, the trial judge, Martyn Zeidman QC, lifted a court order allowing the two 17-year-old defendants to be named for the first time, saying: "The more people who realise the horror of knife crime the better".

New York State has long dealt with 16- and 17-year-old defendants more severely than almost every other state, trying all of them as adults in criminal courts.

"Today I feel compelled to speak in the same vein, because the rules of our criminal justice system are failing young people and families, especially in our communities of color," Mr. Thompson said before lamenting that New York and North Carolina are the only states that treat 16-year-old defendants as adults.

Defense lawyers said the state law violated the 14th Amendment of the Constitution on two grounds: it denied equal protection under the law to their clients by arbitrarily distinguishing between 16- and 17-year-old defendants and those ages 14 and 15; and it denied the older group due process by not allowing the defense to present evidence during hearings.

For now, the four older defendants are being home-schooled, their lawyers say, and expulsion hearings have been postponed.