Possible Clues:

• Defendant made charges
• One of those in court provides account and chapter that's handed down
• Defendant's account gone through
• Copper's caught by top defender's first defendant
• A cricket club, not new to exploitation, in the dock
• Impeached
• Man in court damned? That's not right
• Defendant (with "the")
• Defendant appearing on a criminal charge
• Damned with no end of rancour, as his government was by Zola