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Recent Examples of public defender
Jones was represented by attorneys from the state public defender office, which has a policy not to comment on cases.
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Balmer’s public defender in that case did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Image But Matthew Mahaffey, who runs the city’s public defender office, which represents people who cannot afford attorneys, said that monitoring was too often required of people who posed no flight risk or threat to public safety.
—Taylor Tiamoyo Harris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
The request from deputy public defender Christopher Montoya to Judge Javier Alcala comes a day before Becker is due back in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Morgan Hill for sentencing.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Balmer’s public defender in that case did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
—Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Image But Matthew Mahaffey, who runs the city’s public defender office, which represents people who cannot afford attorneys, said that monitoring was too often required of people who posed no flight risk or threat to public safety.
—Taylor Tiamoyo Harris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
The request from deputy public defender Christopher Montoya to Judge Javier Alcala comes a day before Becker is due back in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Morgan Hill for sentencing.
—Grace Hase, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for public defender
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The Bronx district attorney’s office asked that bail be set at $10,000, but Brown was let go on supervised release during his arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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Osment is set to be arraigned in July at the Mammoth Lakes branch of the Mono County Superior Court, the district attorney’s office said.—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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Agency attorneys kicked off their arguments by invoking a long US tradition of seeking to ensure a competitive marketplace, one that the FTC’s lead trial lawyer, Daniel Matheson, accused Meta of violating.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2025
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The argument between the two marked the latest phase in a quarter-century-old battle between Texans for Lawsuit Reform and the state’s trial lawyers, one that contributed to Texas’s emergence as a Republican stronghold.—
Saul Elbein,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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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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Amid Adams’ absence, Adams’ criminal lawyers were in talks last week with President Trump’s Justice Department about potentially dropping his indictment, as first reported by the New York Times.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 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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That same day, after seeing the prosecutor on TV, Thom fired off an email.—
Tresa Baldas,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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Santos was expelled from Congress in an overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion and cast off to find for himself as prosecutors closed in.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Public defender.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20defender. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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