Sentences with phrase «argued by defense lawyers»

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Defense lawyers had argued those donations had to be tied to specific acts by Menendez to be considered bribes.

So the mayor's defense lawyers had recently been pushing Bharara to make a decision sooner rather than later, by arguing that Bharara would be seen as «pulling a Comey» and putting his thumb on the voting scales if he waited much longer.

Moreover, the lawyers argue that the defendants all live and work in the Buffalo area and that they will be calling numerous defense witnesses from Western New York, whose travel expenses, to be paid for by the defense, will soar if the trial is held in Manhattan.

But the defense lawyers argue in today's filing that those cases didn't involve comments made by the prosecutor to the press.

By the time Nikolas Cruz goes on trial for 17 counts of murder, and 17 counts of attempted murder, only his defense lawyers will still be arguing about a disordered mind and diminished culpability.