- 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...
-
Innocent Defendant (Korean: 피고인; Hanja: 被告人; RR: Pigoin; lit.
Defendant) is a
South Korean television series starring Ji Sung, Um Ki-joon, Kwon Yu-ri,...
- the US, and
possibly other common law countries, a "relief
defendant" or "nominal
defendant" is a
person named in
civil litigation who is not
accused of...
- A
fictitious defendant is a
person that
cannot be
identified by the
plaintiff before a
lawsuit is commenced.
Commonly this
person is
identified as "John...
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referred to as a plea of no
contest or no defense. It is a plea
where the
defendant neither admits nor
disputes a charge,
serving as an
alternative to a pleading...
- In law, a plea is a
defendant's response to a
criminal charge. A
defendant may
plead guilty or not guilty.
Depending on jurisdiction,
additional pleas...
-
parties (the
plaintiff or claimant)
against one or more
parties (the
defendant) in a
civil court of law. The
archaic term "suit in law" is
found in only...
- In law, an
anchor defendant is a
person who is made a
defendant to a
claim for the
primary purpose of
vesting jurisdiction to hear the
claim in a certain...
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deemed adequate as long as the
defendant's rights are
properly disclosed such that any
waiver of
those rights by the
defendant is knowing, voluntary, and...
-
conversation between a
judge and a
criminal defendant who has been
sworn under oath,
which must
occur when the
defendant enters a
guilty plea in
court in order...
