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defense team

n. the defendant and his legal advisors collectively; "the defense called for a mistrial" [syn: defense, defence, defense lawyers] [ant: prosecution]

Usage examples of "defense team".

According to FBI 302 reports and investigations conducted by McVeigh's defense team, Abu Sayyaf leader Edwin Angeles spoke of a terrorist meeting in the vicinity of the Del Monte labeling factory in Davao, on the Island of Mindanao, in late 1992 or early '93.

There were two potential reactions that the internal defense team could take.

A special defense team, backed by four armed robots, rushed to Kamatori's quarters.

Kealty would indignantly deny all accusations, and his defense team would launch its own investigation of Barbara Linders.

Disclosure laws required the prosecution to allow the defense team to examine everything they had.

Reilly was at odds with the rest of the defense team for his poor handling of several aspects of the case and spent a total of thirty-eight minutes with Hauptmann before the trial.

Now that the prosecution's opening statement was finished, it was the defense team's turn.

Now they hired out as an air-defense team, complete with portable shoulder-launched, antiaircraft Stinger missiles from the US.

But I can assure you that the defense team takes pride and pleasure in constructing a difficult problem for the Fleet tacticians.

The morale of the defense team, at any rate, seemed well above norm.

The defense team was seated adjacent to the prosecution, perhaps fifteen feet farther away in the same row of seats, green leather cushions on the oak benches.