Synonym: suspect. Similar words: defender, defense, defensive, attendance, in danger, offender, pedantic, agenda. Meaning: [-dənt] n. a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused.
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121. Nor does the fact of an acquittal debar the media from alleging that the defendant was really guilty after all.
122. This states that the defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him, as regards his physical characteristics.
123. Lucille got to talking with the defendant, Freddy Mack, and agreed to accept a ride home.
124. This is why registration in Part A is preferable although it is the defendant who carries the burden of proof.
125. The prosecution sought to adduce in evidence documents which contained statements made by the defendant in the earlier bankruptcy proceedings.
126. The defendant is a cantankerous individual gripped by the dangerous delusion that his opinion matters.
127. It was undesirable to make an order which would in practice be executed before the defendant could avail himself of that opportunity.
128. Our criminal-justice system is on trial every time a defendant appears in court.
129. They could not commit the defendant to the crown court to deal with bail.
130. The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant.
131. Where is the proof here of any prior amorous relationship between the defendant and the decedent?
132. This obviously defeated the purpose of bail, which is to assure that the defendant will appear in court.
133. Back in the courtroom, the judge told the defendant to rise.
134. If the defendant refuses to sign warning bells should ring.
135. The first lawyer cross-examined the defendant for over three hours.
136. The defendant had been convicted under two different statutes of two offences which both arose out of essentially the same facts.
137. Count Tolstoy lost the case and was ordered to pay £1.5m damages to be shared with another defendant.
138. Every defendant is entitled to the benefit of the doubt.
139. But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone[sentencedict.com], a defendant might escape punishment altogether.
140. The court also upheld the decision of the assistant recorder to reject the counterclaim which the defendant sought to introduce.
141. It was the defendant, an unusually ignorant peasant, who was in awe of the courtroom.
142. Greater difficulties arise where the defendant comes by the information without notice of any restrictions on its disclosure.
143. In my judgment, however,(http://sentencedict.com/defendant.html) this is not of any importance as touching the liability of the defendant under his covenants.
144. No prosecutor would want to argue that the defendant rode a bus to a murder.
145. If the defendant states he was wrongly convicted, he puts that fact in issue in the civil proceedings.
146. A defendant can combat an obstinate refusal even to consider compromise by a shrewd payment into court, or a Calderbank offer.
147. The only defendant to testify was Salaam, a move which most observers saw as having increased his chances of conviction.
148. When the defendant appealed, the Court of Appeal upheld that submission and quashed his convictions.
149. It is accepted by Mr. Marten for the first defendant that this was a correct direction.
150. So long as the defendant does not communicate his intention, he commits no offence.
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