During the hearing of the case, the defendant's legitimate rights and interests were guaranteed.
The defendant's lawyer gave careful guidance to the witnesses who attended the trial.
"Collect evidence illegally" refers to these behaviors, collecting the defendant's states, witnesses, and tangible evidence by torture or threaten or seducing into or cheating etc.
When transacting on credit, the defendant would write an IOU, on which the defendant signed his real name. The defendant's debtors settled accounts with him once a month at the end of each month.
The defendant's lawyer assured the court his client would be present at the hearing.
Jurors increasingly balk at imposing the death penalty, even when they are convinced of a defendant's guilt.
The prosecutor had positive proof of the defendant's guilt.
Originally, it laid down some reasonable factors for lower courts to consider, including how reprehensible they considered the defendant's conduct.
The court took the view that the defendant's plea was equivocal.
The penalty clause entitled the plaintiff, in the event of default in payment, to extract a pound of flesh nearest the defendant's heart.
Judges often find such confessions "both persuasive and conclusive of the defendant's guilt."
Two weeks before the trial, at discovery proceedings, defendant's counsel had objected to the FBI document and made a pretrial motion to have it barred from evidence.
