`` 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.

Unlike defendants who are found guilty of a crime, they are not institutionalized for a fixed period, but rather held in the institution until they are determined not to be a threat.

Despite a tendency of American perjury law toward broad prosecutory power under perjury statutes, American perjury law has afforded potential defendants a new form of defense not found in the British Common Law.

However, the United States Supreme Court found that the defendants ( World-Wide Volkswagen Corp .) did not have the minimum contacts with Oklahoma necessary to create personal jurisdiction there.

" Gideon v. Wainwright,, explicitly overruled Betts v. Brady and found that counsel must be provided to indigent defendants in all felony cases.

In Gregg, the Court found, in a 7-2 ruling, that Georgia's new death penalty laws passed Eighth Amendment scrutiny: the statutes provided a bifurcated trial in which guilt and sentence were determined separately ; and, the statutes provided for " specific jury findings " followed by state supreme court review comparing each death sentence " with the sentences imposed on similarly situated defendants to ensure that the sentence of death in a particular case is not disproportionate.

Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.

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.

Like other defendants, Kamenev was found guilty and shot on 25 August 1936.

Zinoviev and the other defendants were found guilty on August 24, 1936.

In the 1948 federal case " United States v. National City Lines Inc .," the defendants were found guilty on a count of conspiring to monopolize the provision of parts and supplies to their subsidiary companies.

On 11 February, 20 defendants were found guilty.

On 8 December, fifteen of the accused, including A. Giotopoulos and D. Koufodinas, were found guilty ; another four defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence.

The defendants were found guilty and sentenced to up to 15 months imprisonment.

On 3 December 2003, the court found all three defendants guilty and sentenced Nahimana and Ngeze to life imprisonment and Barayagwiza to imprisonment for 35 years.

In the end, Janning makes a statement condemning himself and his fellow defendants for " going along " with the Third Reich and all four are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

The defendants were found guilty and three of them – Semtész, Jó and Ficko – condemned to death, the sentence being carried out immediately.

In 1975, the defendants were found liable for negligence and conflict of interest, were removed as executors of the Rothko estate by court order, and, along with Marlborough Gallery, were required to pay a $ 9. 2 million damages judgment to the estate.

On 27 July 2005, thirteen defendants were found guilty, and handed sentences ranging from fines to suspended prison sentences, to 6 months in jail.

Another three defendants whose cases had been tied in with Miranda ' san armed robber, a stick-up-man, and a bank robbereither made plea bargains to lesser charges or were found guilty again despite the exclusion of their confessions.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama allowed the practice and found in favor of the defendants.

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

It lasted one week and ended with the conclusion that the defendants were innocent and the true initiators of the fire were to be found amid the leading Nazi Party elite.

Rubin, along with the six other defendants, was found not guilty on the charge of conspiracy but guilty ( with four other defendants ) on the charge of incitement.