Sentence examples for told trial from inspiring English sources

(The presiding judge, Leonie Brinkema, told trial lawyers in closed session that she herself did not believe Mr Moussaoui's claim that he knew details of the plot in advance).

In 1998, the court told trial judges who were weighing a bid for leniency at sentencing after a three-strikes conviction that they could consider whether a defendant's "background, character and prospects" place him outside the "spirit" of three strikes.

In Batson vs. Kentucky, the justices told trial judges to question prosecutors if it appeared they were systematically striking blacks from the jury.

In fact, Andrew Edis, prosecuting, told the trial, they were the result of phone hacking by Mulcaire.

They were told at trial that his wounds were potentially fatal.

Capital Xtra DJ Jez Welham told the trial at Westminster Magistrates Courtt he considered Fox to be "a bit of a god in the industry".

Saleem told the trial that, while his words could be seen as "threatening", he had not intended to be.

"I have had this fantasy, and this sexual thing that has overcome me," he told the trial.

A prosecutor told the trial that his son couldn't sleep for three nights after seeing the film.

She told the trial she wanted to kill herself after being repeatedly sexually abused by Clifford in 1977.

Gibbs played with the corpse of the teenager "as if it was a puppet", Morlock told the trial.