Sentence examples for released defendant from inspiring English sources

It's every judge's worst nightmare that a released defendant will show up in the newspaper the next day for committing some horrible crime.

I spotted Mr. Brookins taking a quiet moment alone outside a building where a welcome home celebration for the newly released defendants was being held.

Technically, bail should ensure people show up for their court appearances: in New York, 84% of released defendants show up for all their proceedings.

For example, in what was apparently intended as a demonstration that he was cleaning up the judiciary, where acquittals are routinely purchased by those who can afford to, Mr. Hun Sen this month simply ordered the re-arrest of several dozen recently released defendants.

The issue of releasing defendants who were once insane is an uncommon one.

Judge Lisak said it was normal procedure to release defendants with sentences shorter than three years after their sentencing and before their prison terms were scheduled to begin.

Chief Judge Lippman has also been pushing legislation in Albany that would allow judges in the state to consider public safety in bail decisions and ease the way for judges to release defendants accused of less serious offenses, who often cannot afford even small bail amounts.

Judges can also release defendants on individual recognizance or electronic monitoring, which do not require the defendant to pay money to be released, it said.

Although Harris County judges can release defendants on their own recognizance, under the promise that he or she will return to court, they almost never do so.

A review of the jail population in Harris County suggests many people have become victims of judges who set financial conditions for release even though they could safely release defendants without requiring them to pay.

But over the past 40 years, the federal government and every state have enacted laws to help victims, including laws that instruct judges to consider victims' safety before releasing defendants from custody, and that give victims the right to be notified when a defendant gets out of jail.