How to Use the accused in a Sentence

the accused

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  • If so, the shame and disgrace will rest with the accusers, not the accused.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
  • All but two of the accused, police said, are from out of state.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The answer is to hear out the accusers and the accused, women and men.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • The trial of Pierre Laval would be marred by shouts from the jury at the accused.
    — Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The case dragged on to the Court of Appeal, where all 14 of the accused were acquitted.
    — Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2024
  • Even when the crime scene is full of DNA not belonging to the accused.
    — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • In the French trial, the accused gets to contribute to her own trial a lot more.
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
  • An arraignment is when formal charges against the accused are read by the judge.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
  • This gives the accused the opportunity to present his own point of view or to walk away.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The principal duty of the judge in a criminal case is to protect the accused from abuse by the state.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 26 May 2024
  • There was no reaction from the gallery, packed with supporters of the victim and the accused.
    — Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
  • None of the accused has faced more than a single charge, and the longest sentence handed down was three years.
    — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 18 June 2023
  • Some of the accused were among the inmates who escaped on March 2 when the gangs broke into the country’s two main prisons.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2024
  • More so to leave people rooting, as many will, for the vindication of the accused.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Lawyers for the accused did not respond or declined to comment for this story.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • By the end of the day, the accused are released, and Kramer is under investigation.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • When the person who provides the drug is a teen and the charge is homicide, most states allow or require the accused to be treated as an adult.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Under the statute, those countries are obliged to carry out arrest warrants, no matter the rank of the accused.
    — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Only if the accused fails to appear in court is the bondsman required to fork over payment to the government.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The document did not lay out evidence against the accused.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But several attorneys said its members often defer to the opinion of the health care worker in the group who works in the same field as the accused.
    — Jessica Miller, ProPublica, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The redactions will continue to shield, at least temporarily, some of the accused.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The judge calls his name, the accused raises his hand, the inspector and a witness are absent, and another court date is assigned.
    — Sameer Yasir Elke Scholiers, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • In criminal cases, the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right of the accused to confront their accusers.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Plea information for the accused was not available in online court records.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • There is no judge present nor anyone representing the accused.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer and Meg Kinnard, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the accused were unable to get jobs, and others could no longer receive their unemployment payments.
    — Annalee Newitz, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2023
  • This tested the patience of the villagers’ legal team and, with the two sides unable to settle on a fourth trial date, the court decided in favor of the accused by default.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Earlier Monday, lawyers for the accused appeared in a London court for the first time via video link for a procedural hearing.
    — Paula Newton, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • While the accused in Namibia have been apprehended and prosecuted, those in Iceland still have no charges framed against them.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2023

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