convicted defendant

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• defendant — de‧fen‧dant [dɪˈfendənt] noun [countable] LAW the person or organization in a court of law that has been accused of doing something illegal: • The defendant was convicted and sentenced to 7 years in state prison. * * * defendant UK US… …   Financial and business terms

• defendant — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ criminal ▪ convicted, guilty VERB + DEFENDANT ▪ accuse, charge ▪ The defendant was charged with disturbing the p …   Collocations dictionary

• convicted — adj. Convicted is used with these nouns: ↑criminal, ↑defendant, ↑felon, ↑killer, ↑murderer, ↑offender, ↑prisoner, ↑rapist, ↑terrorist, ↑thief …   Collocations dictionary

• United States federal probation and supervised release — The life cycle of federal supervision for a defendant. United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the former is imposed as a substitute for… …   Wikipedia

• Deck v. Missouri — Supreme Court of the United States Argued March 1, 2005 Decided May 23, 2005 …   Wikipedia

• procedural law — Law that prescribes the procedures and methods for enforcing rights and duties and for obtaining redress (e.g., in a suit). It is distinguished from substantive law (i.e., law that creates, defines, or regulates rights and duties). Procedural law …   Universalium

• sentence — sen·tence 1 / sent əns, ənz/ n [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1: a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a… …   Law dictionary

• crime — crimeless, adj. crimelessness, n. /kruym/, n. 1. an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited. 2. criminal activity and those… …   Universalium

• sentence — The judgment formally pronounced by the court or judge upon the defendant after his conviction in a criminal prosecution, imposing the punishment to be inflicted, usually in the form of a fine, incarceration, or probation. See e.g. 18 U.S.C.A. No …   Black's law dictionary

• allocution — al·lo·cu·tion /ˌa lə kyü shən/ n [Latin allocutio, from alloqui to speak to, from ad to + loqui to speak]: a formal speech; esp: one made by a defendant at the time of sentencing Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

• Impeachment — This article is about a step in the removal of a public official. For challenging a witness in a legal proceeding, see witness impeachment. Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which …   Wikipedia