public defender

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Recent Examples of public defender His public defender did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. Kc Baker, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025 Gosney’s resume, including work as both a prosecutor and public defender, appealed to the office. Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025 The federal public defender’s office for Utah did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday night. Dennis Romero, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024 Dixon is set to be arraigned on Jan. 27, online records show, and is represented by a public defender. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for public defender 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for public defender
Noun
  • The district attorney’s offices in both counties review every search warrant application before it’s sent to a judge.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Prosecutors sent notifications this week to defense attorneys representing subjects in 3,600 open cases involving drug evidence, explaining that rats have been eating drugs held in the downtown evidence room, Rafael Lemaitre, a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office, said Wednesday.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • People who lost their homes in the Southern California wildfires will likely not be able to sue the city of Los Angeles, a trial lawyer has said.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Todd Blanche, Trump’s hush money trial lawyer, was tapped as the president-elect’s deputy attorney general.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Kraven tracks down Calypso (Ariana DeBose), the girl who gave him that life-saving elixir way back when and is now a criminal lawyer in London.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • The budget also covers the Health Department, sheriff's office, circuit court divisions, prosecuting attorney, coroner, constables, Office of Emergency Management, museum, Veterans Services and Cooperative Extension.
    Eplunus Colvin, arkansasonline.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • In 2018, Bell ran for and won the position of St. Louis prosecuting attorney, defeating an incumbent who had served in the role for nearly three decades, in a race that voters viewed as a referendum on Brown’s death and the Ferguson protests.
    The Hill, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Some [defendants] have even gotten lesser sentences than the prosecutors recommended.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • In fact, McMichael called Johnson from the scene of the shooting, asking her advice, prosecutors revealed in a bond hearing for the McMichaels.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025

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“Public defender.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20defender. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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