Sentence examples for treating defendants from inspiring English sources

The footage shows judges routinely treating defendants with callous indifference, making harsh, life-altering decisions in a matter of seconds.

Gupta, the department's top civil rights lawyer, and Foster, the director of a program designed to improve the judicial system, urged courts to take steps to ensure they are treating defendants fairly and legally.

Ms. Snyder said she would promote the use of problem-solving courts, developed by the state's Office of Court Administration to treat defendants.

The group believes defense attorneys should be present at magistrate hearings, to ensure judges treat defendants fairly when setting bail.

WASHINGTON -- The Kentucky court system is reconsidering how its drug courts treat defendants thanks to a new federal policy that is pushing them to offer medications to opiate addicts.

"However, they are not the kind of crimes that justify treating the defendants as if they were dangerous urban terrorists".

The problem is that society treats black defendants differently from white defendants".

She has to advance the interests of her "client" (the state), while at the same time treating the defendant fairly and seeking a just outcome.

The reason for this is that our system of law only works if it treats all defendants equally and subjects them to the same process, regardless of how 'just' a defendant's actions were.

He said white judges often treated black defendants unfairly.

Still, questions again surfaced about whether judges with such latitude would treat convicted defendants fairly.