`` Some of the defendants strongly indicated they knew they were receiving stolen property.

The defendants were tried and convicted within seven weeks.

Claudius also made a law requiring plaintiffs to remain in the city while their cases were pending, as defendants had previously been required to do.

In 2000 they were the defendants in a US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit.

The charges against three of the original defendants, Ruth Schwartz ( owner of Mordam Records ), Steve Boudreau ( a distributor involved in supplying Frankenchrist to the Los Angeles Wherehouse store ), and Salvatore Alberti ( owner of the factory where the record was pressed ), were dismissed for lack of evidence.

The official positions of defendants as heads of state or holders of high government offices were not to free them from responsibility or mitigate their punishment ; nor was the fact that a defendant acted pursuant to an order of a superior to excuse him from responsibility, although it might be considered by the IMT in mitigation of punishment.

As a result of the filing, many documents in the case were voluntarily disclosed by the defendants.

The guidelines for the M ' Naghten Rules ( 1843 ) 10 C & F 200, state, inter alia, and evaluating the criminal responsibility for defendants claiming to be insane were settled in the British courts in the case of Daniel M ' Naghten in 1843.

Of those cases that were successful, 90 % of the defendants had been previously diagnosed with mental illness.

Prominent Communists who became victims of these purges and were defendants in the Prague Trials included Rudolf Slánský, the party's general secretary, Vlado Clementis ( the Foreign Minister ) and Gustáv Husák ( the leader of an administrative body responsible for Slovakia ), who was dismissed from office for " bourgeois nationalism ".

Beria and all the other defendants were sentenced to death.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

At the beginning of the trial, defendants were invited to name those who had " mortal hatred " against them.

Tribal courts were limited to sentences of one year or less, until on July 29, 2010 the Tribal Law and Order Act was enacted which in some measure reforms the system permitting tribal courts to impose sentences of up to three years provided proceedings are recorded and additional rights are extended to defendants.

The year after Greenman, the Supreme Court of California proceeded to extend strict liability to all parties involved in the manufacturing, distribution, and sale of defective products ( including retailers ) and in 1969 made it clear that such defendants were liable not only to direct customers and users, but also to any innocent bystanders randomly injured by defective products.

Giuliani's high-profile raid of the Princeton / Newport firm ended with the defendants having their cases overturned on appeal on the grounds that what they had been convicted of were not crimes .< ref >

All four of the defendants charged with arson and endangering human life were convicted, for which they were sentenced to three years in prison.

Eventually, on 28 April 1977, the trial's 192nd day, the three remaining defendants were convicted of several murders, more attempted murders, and of forming a terrorist organization ; they were sentenced to life imprisonment.

On August 31, 2010, eleven defendants were indicted on RICO charges for allegedly assisting AccessHealthSource, a local health care provider, in obtaining and maintaining lucrative contracts with local and state government entities in the city of El Paso, Texas, “ through bribery of and kickbacks to elected officials or himself and others, extortion under color of authority, fraudulent schemes and artifices, false pretenses, promises and representations and deprivation of the right of citizens to the honest services of their elected local officials ” ( see indictment ).

On November 21, 2006, a settlement was entered in federal court under which a $ 1. 75 million judgment was imposed in one case and $ 1. 86 million in another, but the defendants were insolvent

At the show trial, six of the defendants were given the death sentence ; for unknown reasons the sentences were not carried out.

A number of other defendants were found not guilty, including Stuart Christie, who had previously been imprisoned in Spain for carrying explosives with the intent to assassinate the dictator Francisco Franco, and Angela Mason who became a director of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group Stonewall and was awarded an OBE for services to homosexual rights.

The trial started in 2010, with the four defendants convicted on the 31st of March 2010 by Mr Justice Treacy at the Old Bailey.

In February 1970, five of the Iowa Conspiracy defendants were convicted on the charge of intent to incite a riot while crossing state lines, but none were found guilty of conspiracy.

While the defendants were initially convicted of intent to incite a riot, the verdicts were overturned on appeal.

About 91 % of people in prison at any given time in the United States were convicted in state court for violating state criminal laws, rather than in federal court for violating federal criminal laws, including 99 % of defendants sentenced to death.

All those convicted defendants appealed.

In September 2003, four Chilean defendants were retried and convicted of membership in the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and participation in an attack on the Peru – North American Cultural Institute and a kidnapping-murder in 1993.

The first trial resulted in a jury deadlock ; in the second, defendants Mike Magidson and Jose Merél were convicted of second-degree murder, while the jury again deadlocked in the case of Jason Cazares.

Of 22 defendants, 12 were convicted of treason against Poland and one person was condemned to death.

Of the original nine young black defendants ( some of them minors ), accused of gang raping two fellow hobo white women on a freight train, eight were quickly convicted in quick succeesion trials in a mob atmosphere in Scottsboro by all white juries and sentenced to death.

All three defendants were re-tried in 1988 and were again convicted ; however, only Carl Isaacs was sentenced to death, Coleman and Dungee receiving life sentences.

Technicalities in the original trial later resulted in both defendants being retried separately with both again convicted.

The remaining defendants were convicted solely on the basis of Coleman's testimony.

As a consequence of this refusal, in order to secure the extradition of Einhorn and ensure that he was imprisoned for the murder he committed, the Pennsylvania legislature passed in 1998 a bill ( nicknamed the " Einhorn Law ") allowing defendants convicted in absentia to request another trial.

Webster led the prosecution when defendants were accused of rescuing Shadrach Minkins in 1851 from Boston officials who intended to return Minkins to his owner ; the juries convicted none of the men.

Two of the defendants were convicted of second-degree murder, but not convicted on the requested hate crime enhancements.

At the end of the trial, however, only Van der Lubbe was convicted, while his fellow defendants were found not guilty.

As Morgenthau recommended, Tejada's order vacated the convictions for all the crimes of which the defendants had been convicted.

While five of the defendants were initially convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, all convictions were soon reversed in appeal court.

Minors under 18 were not sentenced to death: consequently, of the two defendants, only Bentley faced the death penalty if convicted.