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Recent Examples of public defender
Mangan has secured private counsel which will file an appearance later, according to a public defender at the arraignment.
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Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
He is represented by a public defender, who was not named in the court records.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
The county public defender's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment after regular business hours Tuesday.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Agreeing with a public defender’s motion detailing the jail’s conditions and a technicality about an old offense that shouldn’t count towards McClure’s record, Cullen reduced the sentence from 57 to 71 months in prison to 48 months.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
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Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
He is represented by a public defender, who was not named in the court records.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
The county public defender's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment after regular business hours Tuesday.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Agreeing with a public defender’s motion detailing the jail’s conditions and a technicality about an old offense that shouldn’t count towards McClure’s record, Cullen reduced the sentence from 57 to 71 months in prison to 48 months.
—Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for public defender
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Elsewhere in the state, the Democrats retained their Supreme Court seats and the Democrats won the Pittsburgh mayoral race, the Philadelphia district attorney election and other key races.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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Billboard has reached out to the Ventura County Police Department, the district attorney’s office and Madden.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
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The conviction was later vacated in 2016, after a new legal team argued that Max’s original trial lawyer had a conflict of interest in the case.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
9 Nov. 2025
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Murphy clearly enjoyed his collaboration with Kardashian, as All's Fair was partly inspired by the media maven's long journey towards becoming a trial lawyer.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Nov. 2025
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As a new three-month excavation begins at the temple and underwater site, Martínez, a criminal lawyer from the Dominican Republic who has turned to diplomacy and archaeology, believes the find is a promising next step in her 20-year search for the tomb of Queen Cleopatra VII.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Martinez has a degree in archaeology but initially became a criminal lawyer.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
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Nimish Ganatra, senior assistant prosecuting attorney in Washtenaw County, alleges Savit suspended him and placed him under investigation for filing a Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission complaint against an unnamed Washtenaw assistant prosecutor Ganatra supervised.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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Minor pleaded guilty Monday to DWI and was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 89 days suspended and credit for one day jail time served, fined $500 and assessed $360 in court fees, according to deputy prosecuting attorney Charles Duell.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 Oct. 2025
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Nguyen tried to stop the carjacking, prosecutors said, and dangled from the open driver’s window as Washington sped in the van through the parking lot.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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But in May 2022, on the day that jury selection was set to begin in the new trial, prosecutors abruptly dropped the case.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Public defender.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20defender. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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