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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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On Wednesday, the district attorney’s office confirmed to ABC affiliate WSYR that the 11 students, all members of the Westhill High School boys’ lacrosse team, had surrendered to local authorities.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
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The charges filed in Santa Clara County reflect a cooperative effort including district attorney’s offices in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Sacramento, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo counties, prosecutors said.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
1 May 2025
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Farmer spent three decades as a trial lawyer and reported his financial worth as $4.37 million as of Dec. 31, 2021, according to state records.—
Dara Kam,
Sun Sentinel,
7 May 2025
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She is set to work alongside Xavier Robert Donaldson, and his leading trial lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, who is the daughter of Mark Geragos.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
7 May 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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In August 2023, Labrador appointed Boyd, who is now Canyon County’s prosecuting attorney, as a special prosecutor in the investigation.—
Kyle Pfannenstiel,
Idaho Statesman,
23 Apr. 2025
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Brandon Carter will also be sworn in Wednesday as prosecuting attorney for Washington and Madison counties.—
Tracy Neal,
arkansasonline.com,
31 Dec. 2024
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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 11 May. 2025.
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