As Forbes contributor and veteran Wall Street lawyer Bill Singer points out the defense lawyers on such cases are usually much more experienced than the prosecutors who tend to be younger and have, in many cases, the more difficult job of proving the defendant guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
With all due respect to the prosecutors in this case, I think we need to find a different perspective to cover some of these trials besides presuming the defendant is guilty before, or during coverage of, the trial.
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This strikes me as a pretty high threshold given that for a jury to convict there should evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt that the defendant is guilty.
Clarke has earned praise for leading internal negotiations with prosecutors to take the death penalty off the table in favor of the defendant pleading guilty and getting a life sentence.
Moreover, policies typically give insurers the right to claw back all legal fees if the defendant is found guilty of insider trading.
Mullah is the second defendant to be found guilty by the special tribunal.
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He is the second defendant to be found guilty by the special tribunal.
"The prosecution submits in this case that this defendant is guilty of the murder of Natalie, " he said.
In the end, Benjamin Stanley was the only defendant remaining in the courtroom when the guilty verdict came down.
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"Usually the judges, even the easy ones, will revoke bail if (the defendant) is found guilty, " Sabadini said.
Although quick verdicts where jurors don't look at the defendant can suggest a guilty verdict, prosecutors weren't predicting what it meant.
By pleading guilty, the defendant gives up the right to try to controvert those facts.
"The odds are so heavily stacked against a defendant who chooses to plead not guilty and then is subsequently found guilty that the vast majority of people facing trial in the US opt to take a plea agreement, " she said.
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The defendant, 41, of Blackwood, was found guilty of grievous bodily harm.
During the Simpson trial, when the defendant was black and the victims were white, polls showed that most whites thought the former football star was guilty, while African-Americans urged us to wait for the evidence to come in.
Denise Lind asked the defendant questions to establish that he understood what he was pleading guilty to.
There were no signs of unusual police activity around the court complex as lawyers for defendant Sulaiman Abu Ghaith entered a "not guilty" plea on his behalf.
During the hearing, the judge indicated that she might have a potential conflict in overseeing the case: Her husband, a criminal defense attorney, represented Danielle Chiesi, a former co-defendant of Raj Rajaratnam who pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the matter.
When a defendant pleads guilty in a capital-murder case in Alabama, the state must present an abbreviated version of its evidence in court, and Amy sat quietly, clasping and unclasping her hands, while the prosecution described her crimes.
Under AFA a court can fine an organization that it has already found guilty of a felony that resulted in either a pecuniary loss to the defendant or a pecuniary loss to another.
The government, as they do in every case, discussed possible agreements to have a defendant plead guilty.
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