Sentence examples for where a defendant from inspiring English sources
Judges sometimes choose where a defendant will work.
"Even where a defendant does not want a quick trial," Professor Richman added, "it's not just his right that's being protected.
But how and where a defendant performs community service depends on a variety of factors, not least of which is where the crime was committed.
The court docket on the case lists him as John Doe, a standard practice in cases where a defendant is cooperating.
Studies of wrongful convictions — cases where a defendant was later exonerated by DNA testing — have shown the most common cause to be eyewitness error.
My lawyer, exasperated, said he "had never heard of a case where a defendant was not permitted to tell the jury why he did what he did".
If new prosecutors come into office on a platform of compassion and diversion, how does the public react to what Foss calls "the one-off" scenario where a diverted defendant commits a crime, especially a heinous or high-profile one?
(1) As a U.S. Attorney, Christie negotiated at least one deferred prosecution agreement where a corporate defendant gave money to Christie's alma mater, Seton Hall, and avoided criminal prosecution.
Although the system with defence case statements works reasonably well, the additional strictures on the defence proposed by Moses could create unfairness in cases where an innocent defendant failed or was incapable of giving instructions.
This was concisely defined by Lord Goff in Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale as "Where an innocent defendant's position is so changed that he will suffer an injustice if called upon to repay or to repay in full, the injustice of requiring him so to repay outweighs the injustice of denying the plaintiff restitution".
Forgiveness is less about a trial where there is a defendant and a prosecutor, where we're looking to see a number figure at the end of the day that defines exactly who holds exactly how much blame, and more about a revolution in our way of thinking and seeing and loving in this world.
