criminal lawyer

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Recent Examples of criminal lawyer To avoid conviction, Roxie hires a criminal lawyer to help her dupe the public, media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by creating shocking headlines. Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 14 Aug. 2024 Prominent criminal lawyers and college professors in a similar vein likened the plea bargains at the heart of Operation Car Wash to torture, and other maneuvers included smear campaigns against judges and prosecutors. Eduardo Mello, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2018 In a recent quantitative meta-analysis, Stetson University’s Christopher Ferguson and Sven Smith found substantial evidence for something conservative scholars and criminal lawyers have long suspected. Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024 But some criminal lawyers who have defended female drug bosses in the U.S. told me that women crave fame and power in the drug world as much as men do. Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for criminal lawyer 
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Noun
  • This is what Jay-Z's team says occurred in the initial demand letter from attorney Tony Buzbee, one of the most successful trial lawyers in Texas, with a high-profile nationwide reputation.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Crumbley’s team claims that if the defense knew about the agreement, her trial lawyer could have questioned the two school employees in cross-examination.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Before starting his career with the FBI more than two decades ago, Veltri served as an assistant public defender in the Broward County Pubic Defender’s Office.
    Jay Weaver, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Maria Jacob, a public defender and Mr. English’s lawyer, did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Tuesday evening.
    Hank Sanders, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Newsweek has reached out to the Latah County prosecuting attorney via email for comment on Friday afternoon.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • State police special agents will prepare an investigative file to be submitted to the Greene County prosecuting attorney, who will determine whether the use of deadly force by the officers was consistent with Arkansas laws.
    Daniel McFadin, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Friday’s development is just the latest twist in a complicated, layered, yearslong corruption scandal that has engulfed Alameda County, its county seat, Oakland, and led to the ousting of its mayor and a district attorney.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The inmate and the Norristown man accused of posting from the fake account are charged with criminal solicitation of murder of the first degree, conspiracy to murder of the first degree and criminal use of a communications facility, the district attorney’s office said.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025

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“Criminal lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminal%20lawyer. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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