public defender

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Recent Examples of public defender The Biden administration appointed more public defenders, civil rights attorneys, and labor lawyers than previous presidents, moving away from the traditional dominance of prosecutors and corporate lawyers. Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Dec. 2024 Green represented himself Friday but will have a public defender appointed to him. Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024 The announcement was bare in details, which a federal public defender who has spent years representing numerous people on Tennessee's death row used to criticize the department. Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024 Routh’s public defender asked for the Feb. 10 trial to be delayed until December, but U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon landed on Sept. 8 for the forthcoming jury trial, according to an order Tuesday evening. Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for public defender 
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Noun
  • Advertisement About three weeks later, on Oct. 18, 2009, a woman in nearby Palo Alto awoke to find a man on top of her, according to the district attorney’s office.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
  • But last week, the Manhattan district attorney’s office leveled a terrorism charge against Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old man accused of killing a health insurance executive, classifying the crime not just as a murder but also as an attack on democracy.
    Hurubie Meko, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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  • Other Justice Department Jobs Todd Blanche, Trump’s hush money trial lawyer, was tapped as the president-elect’s deputy attorney general.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • An experienced trial lawyer in his 41st year of private practice, Dickey graduated from Altoona High School and Saint Francis University before obtaining his law degree from Ohio Northern University.
    Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Kraven tracks down Calypso (Ariana DeBose), the girl who gave him that life-saving elixir way back when and is now a criminal lawyer in London.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Greenhalgh’s father, the late criminal lawyer and Georgetown University Law School associate dean William Greenhalgh, died before she was murdered.
    KC Baker, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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  • The budget also covers the Health Department, sheriff's office, circuit court divisions, prosecuting attorney, coroner, constables, Office of Emergency Management, museum, Veterans Services and Cooperative Extension.
    Eplunus Colvin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • In 2018, Bell ran for and won the position of St. Louis prosecuting attorney, defeating an incumbent who had served in the role for nearly three decades, in a race that voters viewed as a referendum on Brown’s death and the Ferguson protests.
    The Hill, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • The driver passed the 4Runner, driven by Scott Decker, 50, prosecutors said.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Bridgeport city councilman Alfredo Castillo was referred to state prosecutors on Tuesday for potential criminal charges related to allegedly registering a non U.S. citizen to vote in the city’s 2023 Democratic primary and filling out an absentee ballot in that person’s name.
    Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2025

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