defense attorney

NOUN
  1. the lawyer representing the defendant

How To Use defense attorney In A Sentence

  • Most criminal cases are therefore settled without trial by the process of plea bargaining between the prosecutor and the defense attorney.
  • What these people should do is be dragged through a three-month process of meetings, phone calls, letters of various threat levels, the hiring of a tax defense attorney, several arbitrary and probably highly unfair levies of additional penalties, the destruction of their credit rating, at least one garnisheed paycheck, and at least one typical bureaucratic screwup that takes five days of excruciating nit-picking to resolve. Ron Kirk Nomination Raises Question: Is Obama Vetting To Ensure He Picks People Who Do Not Pay Taxes? - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState
  • Hastings said he would approve the trip unless the defense attorneys could cite legal precedents supporting their argument.
  • Most criminal cases are therefore settled without trial by the process of plea bargaining between the prosecutor and the defense attorney.
  • The decision appeared to stagger defense attorneys Williamson and Michael W.. Krumholtz.
  • The attorneys claim that Villalobos and others conspired to "blackball" and "black-list" them and that he instructed assistant DAs and staff that neither probation nor plea bargains are to be made available to the clients of these defense attorneys. Brownsville Herald :
  • His defense attorney says investigators had no evidence that the suspect meant to act on what he calls boastful chatter. Undefined
  • And as a matter of fact, Larry, I have asked for polygraphs from defense attorneys in the past.
  • Morgan is a well-known defense attorney.
  • Finally, the weight of scientific evidence, wielded by an implacable defense attorney, got Miller released and another man indicted.
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