Sentence examples for set of defendants from inspiring English sources

Legal experts say it is rare that prosecutors conduct separate trials for a crime that only one defendant or set of defendants could have committed.

The third set of defendants, whose trial the judge-prosecutor attempted to abandon last week, consists of about 30 advisers to the cabinet ministers.

But the prosecutors' approach greatly increased the attention and brought criticism from legal experts, who said it was rare to conduct separate prosecutions for a crime that only one defendant or set of defendants could have committed.

Mr. Salim will be tried separately, perhaps late next year or early in 2002, when the government is expected to try another set of defendants, including three men who are fighting extradition from Britain, and any others who might be apprehended by then.

"Plaintiffs could have obtained a statewide injunction had they filed an action against a broader set of defendants, a simple matter of pleading," Reinhardt later wrote in a concurrence in a Proposition 8 order.

The benefits of the program are threefold: students learn the law in action, overburdened lawyers get an extra set of hands, and defendants in one of the country's most dilapidated court systems get extra brain power on their cases.

Since the 1980s, China has built hundreds of courthouses, opened dozens of law schools and produced legislation that, on paper, intricately describes the rights of defendants and sets out limits on the police.

"The government believes that no condition or set of conditions could assure the defendants' appearance or ensure the safety of the community," a prosecutor, L. Judson Welle, told the judge.

The law was affirmed by the courts as recently as 2003, but the decision allowed it only under a very narrow set of circumstances, including when a defendant knows and intends that a killing will take place.

"A jury must determine whether a reasonable person would expect Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again to be included in a complete set of James Bond films… From the Defendants' perspective, this claim will have to Die Another Day," Martinez wrote, throwing in a pun that Johnson would definitely get since the Brosnan films were included in her set.

It allows for greater disclosure of defendants' prior convictions and takes away some of judges' freedom to set jail terms for murderers.