Sentence examples for proportion of defendants from inspiring English sources

A proportion of defendants are given medium- or long-term judicially supervised treatment orders for drug addiction, mental illness, or other problems.

Still, the proportion of defendants sentenced to prison represents an improvement over previous years, said John Feinblatt, the mayor's chief policy adviser and criminal justice coordinator.

In my youth a high proportion of the defendants in cases of armed robbery were described as company directors (often, for some reason, from Essex).

Disturbingly, in every year studied, a higher proportion of white defendants had previous convictions – which would normally result in a greater number of prosecutions and harsher sentences.

In a recent study for the Manhattan district attorney's office, Dr. Stuart M. Kirschner of John Jay College found that only a tiny proportion of criminal defendants ever used a psychiatric defense.

Tells about the Court's actions on rights of defendants.

At both Spectrum and Howard, 95 percent of defendants showed up.

When Gideon was decided, about 43 percent of defendants were indigent.

In most jurisdictions, the vast majority of defendants who are evaluated for adjudicative competency are deemed competent to proceed.

The court in Bujumbura also acquitted 22 of defendants.

A defendant would be liable only for his proportion of the responsibility.