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 defendant [dɪ'fɛndənt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 被告

[经] 被告方


  1. The defendant is accused of theft.
    被告被控偷窃。
  2. The courtroom buzzed as the defendant was led in.
    被告被带进来时, 审判室里发出一阵嘈杂声.
  3. It is a scandal that the defendant was declared innocent.
    宣判被告无罪, 这真是可耻的事.


defendant
[ noun ]
a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused
<noun.person>


Defendant \De*fend"ant\ (d[-e]*f[e^]nd"ant), a. [F.
d['e]fendant, p. pr. of d['e]fendre. See {Defend}.]
1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. [Obs.]

With men of courage and with means defendant.
--Shak.

2. Making defense.


Defendant \De*fend"ant\, n.
1. One who defends; a defender.

The rampiers and ditches which the defendants had
cast up. --Spotswood.

2. (Law) A person required to make answer in an action or
suit; -- opposed to plaintiff. --Abbott.

Note: The term is applied to any party of whom a demand is
made in court, whether the party denies and defends the
claim, or admits it, and suffers a default; also to a
party charged with a criminal offense.

Libellee \Li`bel*lee"\, n. (Law)
(a) The party against whom a libel has been filed; --
corresponding to {defendant} in a common law action.
(b) The defendant in an action of libel.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

  1. Hal Eubanks, a property manager, was also named as a defendant.
  2. Jury nullification means a jury can also ignore a judge's instructions in order to convict an unpopular defendant for his views, not for what he did.
  3. Critics of the Senate bill said almost every defendant facing a death sentence would claim to be mentally retarded under the legislation.
  4. Reagan is now trying to claim that "the public interest, all of a sudden, favors non-disclosure when a criminal defendant's right to liberty is at stake," said Poindexter's lawyers.
  5. An eighth defendant was acquitted of all charges, but still faces a state murder charge in an unrelated case.
  6. The 12-member jury discussed press accounts of the trial on July 28, the day after they convicted defendant Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, the jurors said.
  7. A 1972 Supreme Court ruling says the prosecution must derive all its evidence in a case from sources wholly independent of testimony a defendant gave under a grant of immunity.
  8. The verdict makes Patino the first defendant in the case to be cleared of all charges.
  9. And now she's dead, and I'm ahead," Leinen recalled the defendant saying.
  10. "This defendant is the third defendant in this case whose presence in this country is the result of forcible removal from his country," Rafeedie said.
  11. "This defendant is the third defendant in this case whose presence in this country is the result of forcible removal from his country," Rafeedie said.
  12. A fourth defendant, stockbroker Anthony Parnes, 45, was found guilty of false accounting and theft charges.
  13. Curtis Management is also a defendant in the case.
  14. The 49-year-old defendant was held in prison for 14 months until his trial began Monday in Mannheim District Court.
  15. "On information and belief, defendant Smith told them that unless Raytheon silenced or removed Dr. Korb, he (Smith) would no longer meet with anyone from Raytheon's Washington office," the suit says.
  16. Punitive damages are awarded in addition to compensatory damages and are designed to punish or deter a defendant found to have acted recklessly or maliciously.
  17. No date has been set for any of the four trials ordered by Gesell for each defendant.
  18. Former Chief Executive Frederick Joseph also was named as a defendant, but he wasn't included in the group of defendants accused of taking an active role in the alleged scheme.
  19. Another defendant in the mammoth litigation over the 1983 bond default by Washington Public Power Supply System agreed to settle plaintiffs' claims for $20 million.
  20. "This is the time for the defendant to tell me anything he wants me to consider, so he can't complain later something was said to which he didn't have a chance to respond," Kolenda said.
  21. If convicted on all counts, each defendant could receive up to 35 years in prison and a $2.5 million fine.
  22. A former Kuwait Airways sales manager has been sentenced to six months in prison for stealing $2.5 million from the airline in what the defendant claimed was a plan with the CIA to woo moderates in Iran.
  23. O'Neill, who helped Louisiana's Commissioner of Insurance Doug Green finance his successful 1987 campaign, was a defendant in a lawsuit by the Louisiana Board of Ethics for Elected Officials.
  24. He is the only defendant charged with racketeering.
  25. Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., Mr. Boesky's principal underwriter, also would remain as a defendant in some of the cases.
  26. At midday Wednesday, jurors sent a question to Shadur, who promptly talked with defendant William Patterson, his attorney, Burck Bailey and government prosecutors during a brief telephone conference call.
  27. A fourth defendant, retired Air Force Maj. Gen.
  28. A defendant in the Howard Beach racial assault case pleaded guilty Tuesday to riot charges shortly before a judge unsealed documents revealing another youth had admitted the same crime at a secret hearing last week.
  29. Government security officials had refused to allow either defendant to inspect the sensitive material.
  30. A Ugandan defendant, Mpigi Kabasha Mbogo, 39, is to be sentenced Monday.
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