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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for criminal lawyer
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In its short, inglorious history, the CFPB harassed businesses with hundreds of millions of dollars of frivolous complaints that enriched trial lawyers, while doing nothing of consequence to actually help consumers.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
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Top 40 Under 40 Trial Lawyer: An award highlighting young trial lawyers who demonstrate exceptional skill, dedication, and leadership in the courtroom.—
William Jones,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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Most of those counties do not have hired public defenders.—
Ilana Panich-Linsman,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Soriano’s public defender could not immediately be reached for comment.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Honolulu’s prosecuting attorney’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In spite of a dearth of evidence, the judge in the case sent it back to the Pulaski County prosecuting attorney's office.—
Tony Holt,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
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His trial is expected to last four to six weeks once testimony begins, prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Wednesday.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Fourteen months after Robbins' settlement, his sister Paige, 19, was fearful that the images captured of her could be inappropriate and could damage her own ambitions of one day being district attorney.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Criminal lawyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminal%20lawyer. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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