Vincent Bugliosi

The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

American Author

Robert Zubrin

The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

American Scientist

Lawrence O'Donnell

Practically, every defense lawyer knows that the jury desperately wants to hear from the defendant and that the only reason not to put him on the stand is that he is soooo guilty that every answer he gives after his name will eradicate any shred of reasonable doubt.

American Journalist

Marcia Clark

The prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant is guilty, but also to ensure that they get it by means of fair trial, and that means a fair trial for the defense as well as the prosecution.

American Lawyer

Susana Martinez

Every judge should have real-time access to the criminal background and history of defendants who appear in their courtrooms - so that sentencing and bail decisions can be made with that information.

American Politician

John Grisham

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

American Writer

Alan Dershowitz

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Darryl Glenn

I told the truth when I said I have never been arrested. I have never been handcuffed or fingerprinted. I have never appeared in court as a defendant.

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.

American Businessman

Shirin Ebadi

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Iranian Lawyer

Used strictly in legal situations to describe someone being tried or sued.

Legal Context

'Defendant' doesn't mean guilty; it indicates someone's charges are not yet proven.

Presumption of Innocence

The term is neutral and does not imply character judgment.

Neutral Term

 a community court program that provided alternative sanctions. This means now a judge can sentence a defendant to punishment with assistance. So a defendant who would otherwise get a jail sentence would now be able to get individual counseling sessions,

How judges can show...

 Such hidden biases and black-box algorithms that researchers uncover sometimes but sometimes we don't know, can have life-altering consequences. In Wisconsin, a defendant was sentenced to six years in prison for evading the police.

Machine intelligence...

 He actually sits down with all of his prosecutors to help them see that there's basically two categories of defendants in the the ones we're afraid of -- oftentimes, rightfully so -- and the ones we're mad at.

The surprising...

 was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. Now, when a jury has to make the decision between life in prison and the death penalty, they base their decision largely on whether or not the defendant

You aren't at the mercy...

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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...

 This kind of precedent should trigger and encourage more such actions. It's time for a reset, given mass incarceration, medical and consumer debt and given indigent criminal defendants

How forgiveness can...

 But was Genghis Khan a vicious barbarian or a unifier who paved the way for the modern world? We'll see in "History vs. Genghis Khan." "Order, order. Now who's the defendant today?

History vs. Genghis Khan...

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Giant Seal Fights Off...

 the defendant not guilty today this jury told the world that what we all saw wasn't a crime

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