the defense
noun
law
: the lawyer or lawyers who represent the defendant in a court case
The defense rests, Your Honor.
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Prosecutors and the defense agreed Karol-Chik will be sentenced to the Colorado Department of Corrections for a term between 35 and 48 years for the second-degree murder conviction.
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Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 15 May 2024
This time around, Trump sat at the defense table with his eyes closed for long stretches of testimony as Cohen recounted his decade-long career as a senior Trump Organization executive, doing work that by his own admission sometimes involved lying and bullying others on his boss's behalf.
—TIME, 13 May 2024
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Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 15 May 2024
This time around, Trump sat at the defense table with his eyes closed for long stretches of testimony as Cohen recounted his decade-long career as a senior Trump Organization executive, doing work that by his own admission sometimes involved lying and bullying others on his boss's behalf.
—TIME, 13 May 2024
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“The defense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20defense. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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