Sentences with phrase «guilty defendants»

After the immense criticism which has accompanied the charge on guilty defendants and the finding that it is not generating as much...

And this may risk, in Lord Brown's words, that «many guilty defendants will have to go free» [113].

That wouldn't protect guilty defendants from actual small harms spread over huge numbers of plaintiffs, but it would provide some shield from those bring claims grounded in seemingly deliberate ignorance.

A defence lawyer who is able to robustly and successfully advise a clearly guilty defendant that they haven't a cat - in - hell's chance of an acquittal saves the state thousands of pounds for their few hundred pounds fee.

God the Father is the judge, we are the guilty defendants, and Jesus is our lawyer.

But our system remains fundamentally imbalanced when we expose innocent - until - proven - guilty defendants to reputational suicide while according complainants, whose allegations have not yet been tested in court, with the veil of anonymity.

Part of a lawyer's role in defending a criminal case involving a guilty defendant is to perform the larger civic role of constantly monitoring the law enforcement system for police misconduct that incidentally benefits the client (and that is one reason why a court doesn't want to let a lawyer withdraw when the defendant is likely to be guilty but there are indications of police misconduct in the case).

And, of course, a guilty defendant can appeal, at least for a little while.

• Announced the verdict of the guilty defendants.