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What words refer to the person who has been accused of something?
Examples defendant examples
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Simple sentences
The news article painted the defendant as a guilty man, even though he had been proven innocent.
The decision was in favor of the defendant.
The defendant was sentenced to death.
The defendant will appeal to a higher court.
The defendant has no history of drug abuse.
The defendant has no prior convictions.
The defendant's innocence could not be verified.
The judge said that the defendant will remain in jail until he finds the money to pay all his fines.
The prosecution condemned the defendant for kidnapping a child.
The defendant was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Tom is the defendant.
The defendant is free to go.
The defendant was granted an appeal.
Who represents the defendant?
We find the defendant, Tom Jackson, not guilty.
Movie subtitles
Defendant, do you accept the sentence?
Defendant, I ask you again if you accept the sentence.
JUDGE: Gentlemen of the jury, you are instructed that the defendant is under the laws of the State of New York, presumed to be innocent of the crime with which he is charged.
This presumption remains with the defendant throughout the trial.
The defendant will rise and face the bench.
The defendant has been tried according to the laws of this state.
We find the defendant not guilty.
Edna Hooper, will you swear that during the hours when this indictment charges that this defendant, Frederick Garrett among others, murdered Joseph Wilson will you swear that during those hours Garrett was peaceably in his own house?
You mean, by Mr. Dawson, the defendant Kirby Dawson.
This defendant, Kirby Dawson, according to these notes also known as Bubbles for once paid the bill.
Defendant number one, Kirby Dawson who, according to testimony, was in the Green Light Inn during the hours of the commission of this crime.
While in the meantime, the defendant Frederick Garrett peaceably armed with an ax, destroyed the efforts of the officials to save the life of an innocent man. The enlarged stop action.
Do you know the defendant?
You saw the defendant, Jess Higgins shoot and kill Dick Hartford, didn't you?
I'd like to inform the jury that the reasons given by the defendant are not true.
Your Honor, would the defendant please remove her hat.
I must defend the defendant's rights.
Enough, Counselors. It's been insinuated that the prosecutor has failed to respect the defendant's rights.
Provided they could throw a knife as skillfully as the defendant.
Does the defendant have anything to add to this testimony?
You accused the defendant of a suspicious animosity.
Does the defendant have anything to add?
You aren't a relative or employee of the defendant?
I swore you in because you aren't legally married to the defendant.
Take the defendant away.
You're not a relative or employee of the defendant?
This weapon, which the defendant foolishly tossed. This weapon, left there, as if by evil design, was at his fingertips.
Defendant, you are about to hear the evidence against you.
Gentleman of the jury, I cannot believe. that a doubt has not entered your minds by now. and if this is not strong enough for an acquittal. think of the defendant's ill-starred redity and lamentable childhood.
The only thing that matters here. is the defendant.
Plaintiff and defendant then have the liberty to make other marriages, if they so desire.
But defendant, you don't expect us to believe that you lied in order to serve justice.
Isn't that so, defendant?!
Defendant, stay with the facts!
You are to decide, solely upon the evidence presented.. Whether the defendant committed the crime.
The Prosecution has offered testimony by which it hopes to prove.. Beyond any reasonable doubt, the guilt of the defendant.
The defendant has admitted being in the room with his father at the time. Swearing that no blow was delivered with the paperweight given in evidence.
The defendant will rise and face the jury.
We the jury, find the defendant Clifford Pyncheon, guilty as charged. No, no!
You mean the defendant?
You said you recognized the defendant.
News and current affairs
The indictment of al-Bashir, who is as entitled to the presumption of innocence as any other defendant, is another important milestone on the long road that must be traveled to reach the goal that the world set for itself.
But the problem with the Argentine debt case has little to do with the moral failings of either the plaintiffs or the defendant.
As judges and juries, the defendant's compatriots could also bring greater sensitivity to the assessment of guilt because they appreciated the tough conditions under which a deposed dictator made his decisions.
In the South African proceedings the most important question was not the future of the defendant but the past of the victims.
Every victim was encouraged to tell his story and the defendant listened.
Encouraging victims to speak and then giving the defendant the right to filibuster the proceedings by touting his merits as a political leader amounts to a formula for infinite delay.
Hang Seav Heang, 28, described the defendant as a gentle man, a good father.
Genocide's stringent requirements mean that it is - and should be - difficult to convict a defendant.
However, according to the international case law, one can prove by inference a defendant's state of mind only if the inference is the only reasonable one that can be drawn based on the evidence.
That court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, may soon mete out justice to a new defendant, following the arrest in Belgrade of Radovan Karadzic, wartime leader of Bosnia's Serbs.