How to use "defendant" in a sentence

Sometimes he looks across at the defendant's sister, a young woman with long, dark hair and sad eyes

But only sometimes, because the defendant and the rest of her family, the Lee family, are wild, and he does not want to make her, or them, angry

"All rise!" the court clerk says, and the jury, the lawyers and the family of the defendant all stand

On Wednesday the fifth of January Mrs Dawson went to the house of her sister, the defendant, Miss Lee

The words she said were 'I will kill him,' but the defendant says she does not remember that

Several people saw the defendant walking around Bristol looking for Mr Dawson

Nick walks to the bins and looks around them; on the other side is the sister of the defendant