defendants
- plural of defendant.
Example Sentences
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The department instead recommended the defendants be diverted to a program for first-time offenders that allows them to have the charges dismissed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Eddins’ opinion is consequential on its own terms: It expands protections for criminal defendants by making it easier for them to overturn a conviction obtained through expert testimony that has since been “scientifically discredited.”
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
The defendants said they’d believed they were targeting a military aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The two defendants lived just a mile apart in east London, a Snaresbrook Crown Court jury was told.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Only about a quarter of felony defendants in large urban counties were charged with a violent offense in 2006.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
