defense lawyer

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Some jurors recalled that during the trial, a defense lawyer said that criminal counts the brothers faced each carried a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

As Ms. Antonetta reports, one Nazi doctor’s defense lawyer argued his client was “animated with excessive enthusiasm by the thought of having to help people.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

In the same year he ran for mayor, Hillquit was also the defense lawyer for several left-leaning publications that Woodrow Wilson’s administration tried to ban or shut down.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025

Plasencia will remain out on bail until his sentencing on Dec. 3 on request from his defense lawyer, who argued that he is one of the primary caretakers of a 2-year-old son.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

Councilman Grandy indignantly denied that the money was a bribe from the pancake people; then he rushed out and hired the most expensive defense lawyer in Fort Myers.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen