Whether criminal defendants as a whole are likely to be helped or hurt by the ruling is open to debate.

But immigrants who are criminal defendants - people care even less.

In common law systems, most criminal defendants are entitled to a trial held before a jury.

But he was not certain at the time whether "something different" should include representing criminal defendants.

A lot of criminal defendants thought it was very clever.

The society, a private organization, provides essentially all legal services to the city's poor criminal defendants.

In his 38 years on the force, Johnson said, he had never seen so much news media attention paid to a criminal defendant.

A criminal defendant has the right to be represented by counsel.

When was the last time a criminal defendant told you everything?

By law, criminal defendants in Federal cases must generally be tried within 10 weeks after they have been charged.