Crossword-Solution: DEFENDANTS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Charged with crime, again and again, the black man must go to jail; he is unable to give bond; he is defended, not by the ablest, but by the poorest lawyers, often by an unwilling appointee of the court; he lacks the benefit of that personal appeal to judge and jury, so often enjoyed by other defendants, which would make them WANT to believe him innocent until proven guilty; he faces, on the contrary, a judge and jury who hold him in some measure of contempt as a man, regardless of his guilt or innocence.

The Legislature interfered in behalf of the defendants, and passed an Act, repealing in their eagerness not merely the penal clauses of the Act, but the Act itself, so far as it related to horse-racing.

The sons of Sigfus gave notice of their suits at the Hill of Laws, and asked in what Quarter Courts they lay, and in what house in the district the defendants dwelt.

The defendants should have been either the Corporation of Barchester, or possibly the chapter of your father." "W-hoo!" said the archdeacon; "so Master Bold is on the wrong scent, is he?" "That's Sir Abraham's opinion; but any scent almost would be a wrong scent.

There are dissimilarities in the defendants' structure--changes of form and strengthening of parts--which may be improvements, but such dissimilarities seem to me to have no bearing upon the means adopted to preserve the equilibrium, which means are the equivalent of the claims in suit and attain an identical result.