Defendants: Legal Case Study

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But as mentioned before, you can always work both ways just the same way the victim has plenty of Rights, the defendant has loopholes in the law that he can use to his Advantage as well possibly convincing the jury open not guilty plea for whatever charges the defendant faces. Defendants are not always bad, they might be people or simply accused on false charges or allegations and because of the adversarial system they can defend themselves and count on all these law enforcement resources to prove their

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