Sentences with phrase «defendants coming before the courts»

The vast majority of defendants coming before the courts are suffering from addiction, poverty or mental ill - health — very often they suffer from all three.

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«This cause came on for final hearing before the court upon the plaintiff wife's second amended complaint for separate maintenance (alimony unconnected with the causes of divorce), the defendant husband's answer and counterclaim for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty and adultery, and the wife's answer thereto setting up certain affirmative defenses...»
In the review process in relation to a defendant who is already serving his sentence, and who enters into an appropriate agreement to provide information, in which he discloses his previous criminal activities, he will come before the court, as P did, to be sentenced for the new crimes he has disclosed, as well as for a review of the original sentence.
When the defendant appointed new counsel who considered the trial would take more than fifteen days, the proper management of the trial came back before the Court.
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