Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet DEFENDANT

Definition av DEFENDANT

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• In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.
• Arraignment is a formal reading of a criminal charging document in the presence of the defendant, to inform them of the criminal charges against them.
• An allocution, or allocutus, is a formal statement made to a court by the defendant who has been found guilty before being sentenced.
• In court proceedings, a defendant is a person or object who is the party either accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.
• In Australia, an indictable offence is more serious than a summary offence, and one where the defendant has the right to trial by jury.
• The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act.
• It is a plea where the defendant neither admits nor disputes a charge, serving as an alternative to a pleading of guilty or not guilty.
• A plea bargain, also known as a plea agreement or plea deal, is a legal arrangement in criminal law where the defendant agrees to plead guilty or no contest to a charge in exchange for concessions from the prosecutor.
• If the defendant pleaded either guilty or not guilty and was executed, their heirs would inherit nothing, their property escheating to the state.
• Under common law systems, a defendant who pleads guilty will be convicted if the court accepts the plea.
• Res ipsa loquitur (Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in common law and Roman-Dutch law jurisdictions under which a court can infer negligence from the very nature of an accident or injury in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved in the context of tort litigation.
• Stalingrad legal defense, a strategy used by a defendant to wear down the plaintiff or legal proceedings.
• thumbIn jurisprudence, unconsciousness may entitle the criminal defendant to the defense of automatism, i.
• While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge with the person on trial either being free on bail or incarcerated, and results in the conviction or acquittal of the defendant.
• Punitive damages, or exemplary damages, are damages assessed in order to punish the defendant for outrageous conduct and/or to reform or deter the defendant and others from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the lawsuit.
• In common law jurisdictions, most crimes require proof both of mens rea and actus reus ("guilty act") before the defendant can be found guilty.
• A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of members of the armed forces subject to military law, and, if the defendant is found guilty, to decide upon punishment.
• The burden of proof is on the prosecutor for criminal cases, and the defendant is presumed innocent.
• In the case, a defendant was tried in a Saginaw County court, but filed a plea for abatement, claiming that the supposed offense was committed in Bay County and was not in the jurisdiction of the Saginaw County court.
• Southerners demanded the hanging of those responsible, who were accused of treason and making war on the United States, but after the first defendant was acquitted, the government dropped the case.

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