Sentence examples for the defence request from inspiring English sources

No further details of the defence request were available.

At the end of the day's proceedings, the defence requested that all but the conclusions be censored.

The defence requested that this document should not be admitted in evidence without the governor and his secretary attending trial for the purposes of cross-examination.

Because both the public prosecutor and the defence requested complete acquittal, the verdict will most likely not be appealed.

The Santiago Appeals Court had quickly accepted a defence request to halt the arrest procedures pending the appeal.

The final defence requested was for states to actually use the evidence they have, by instituting mandatory "risk-limiting audits".

With court cases in Brazil often dragging on for more than a decade, other newspapers revelled in the judge's rejection of defence request for more time as a "cynical tactic" and his refusal to accept an appeal that the São Paulo government had no jurisdiction.

The Treasury has previously blocked the defence chiefs' request on the grounds of cost.

The judge told the court: "This trial has been adjourned at the defence's request".

Already the ICC has agreed to postpone the trial, at the defence's request, from April to July.

Another judge had ruled in April that the DNA evidence be reexamined but later said the defence should request the order on the first day of trial.