Sentences with phrase «defense lawyers trying»

ID supporters sound like defense lawyers trying to get their clients off by claiming that Bigfoot was the real murderer.

Most of these articles focus on the drivers and how insurance adjusters and defense lawyers try to deflect blame from their client to the other driver.

Not exact matches

We spoke with the head of that coalition, a student who feels being Asian hurt his college application, and an NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer to try to settle the debate.

I predict his defense lawyer will never try an entrapment defense.

After discussing the note with prosecutors and defense lawyers, Judge Valerie Caproni ordered the jurors to keep trying.

One of the state's most powerful politicians badgered companies reliant upon his legislative support to funnel more than $ 300,000 to his son, a prosecutor told a jury at the start of a corruption trial Tuesday as defense lawyers countered that she was trying to criminalize a typical father - son relationship.

But defense lawyers repeatedly called him an irredeemable liar — an argument bolstered considerably in early February, when he was arrested midway through his testimony for admitting to trying to defraud his credit card company.

Trying to distinguish their clients from the broader political culture of Albany has been a challenge for defense lawyers in corruption trials.

Defense lawyers say the government is trying to criminalize normal political behavior.

Howe pleaded guilty to eight federal charges, and defense lawyers have argued that he lied on the witness stand to try to escape the potential for decades in prison.

The United States attorney's office failed until the trial was well underway to turn over to defense lawyers recordings of 9,000 conversations, almost 300 in Yiddish, in phone calls made or received by Moses Stern, a Rockland County developer who became a government informer to try to avoid a lengthy prison sentence.

Halloran's lawyer made an unsuccessful 11th - hour plea to try to mount an insanity defense for his client.

Weinstein hired high - powered defense lawyer Elkan Abramowitz, a partner at the firm where Vance worked before he became DA, after Ambra Battilana Gutierrez accused him of grabbing her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt inside his Tribeca office in March 2015, sources told The Post on Wednesday.

After defense attorneys spent hours grilling Howe about his nefarious past, U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, with the jury out of the room, tried to get the lawyers to move on.

During the White Plains federal corruption trial of Halloran (R - Queens), defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese tried to shoot down the government's claims that the pol in 2012 offered to dole out $ 80,000 in no - show city consulting work on a Queens YMCA to the wire - wearing undercover agent in exchange for funds to boost what would be a failed congressional run by Halloran.

«Credibility is often the key element of a trial,» said Gerald Shargel, a veteran defense lawyer not involved in the case, adding that a tried - and - true defense tactic is to undermine such credibility.

Instead we should try to give the reader something more, such as «sources familiar with the thinking of defense lawyers in the case,» or «sources whose work brings them into contact with the county executive,» or «sources on the governor's staff who disagree with his policy.»

During the trial, McLaughlin rebuked defense lawyers for trying to link the death of Ramarley Graham to the trial of his twin brothers.

A defense lawyer had Howe admit on the witness stand that he tried to bilk his credit card company after he signed a cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors.

«Numerous organisations have recognised that use of antibiotics in agriculture poses risks to human health,» says Avinash Kar, a San Francisco - based lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which initiated legal action last year to try to force the FDA to phase out the growth promoters.

Twice, attorneys for Anthony Borges have tried to get prosecutors and defense lawyers thrown off the Nikolas Cruz case.

First and foremost, your policy provides a lawyer to not only defend you, but also to try to settle the matter within your policy limits before it gets to the point of needing a defense.

For example, Crichton uses individual weather station data in the context of a lawyer showing how the defense will try to pursuade a jury.

When lawyers try to get their clients off with an insanity defense the last thing they want is for evidence to turn up that their clients tried to conceal the crime.

I merely pointed out that this approach may work fine for a defense lawyer whose legitimate job it is to try to generate reasonable doubt (and who legitimately does not need to believe in what he says), but that in science, one needs to have a consistent argument one actually believes in, taking into account the whole picture, if one is to be taken seriously.

The criminal lawyer, James M. Ventura, has tried cases as both the prosecutor and the defense attorney.

This is called an «affirmative defense,» wherein a lawyer will try to prove that their defendant was forced into the crime, either through duress or the threat of bodily injury (entrapment).

His lawyer indicated that the defense has been involved in plea negotiations, trying to avoid any jail time.

Evan writes that as a defense lawyer, he'd often try to dehumanize victims to better defend his clients, but that as a plaintiff's lawyer, «things are much different: torts are automatically «humanized» for you every day by your clients.»

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Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something like your debt collection defense practice or a small business startup practice or an estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.

Blischak Law has decades of experience trying DUI cases and has a team of criminal defense lawyers that can help you get the verdict you deserve.

A lawyer in our personal injury section, Andrew practiced law in Houston for two years as a criminal defense attorney, trying more than 120 jury trials in the metropolitan area prior to joining Zinda Law Group.

Mary is an accomplished trial lawyer, having served as lead defense counsel in what was, at the time, the largest civil litigation ever tried in United States history.

Corporate lawyers and insurance defense lawyers know the records of plaintiffs» lawyers, and they know which lawyers actually try cases.

The defense attorneys and insurance companies must know that your lawyer can and will try the case.

Lawyers trying the case almost always try to use a cause strike to get a lawyer off, saying that they are biased toward either Defense or Plaintiffs based on the type of law they practice.

In the Connecticut state system, there are private meetings between prosecutors and defense lawyers where the parties try to strike a deal; in serious cases, judges get involved in these skull sessions.

The FSC gives your criminal defense lawyer and the D.A. an opportunity to try to settle your case.

Many defense lawyers will intentionally try to shame or embarrass the plaintiff in an attempt to shift a jury's attention away from his client's negligence.

Our criminal defense lawyers have tried hundreds of cases ranging from misdemeanors, felonies, and even death penalty cases.

Therefore, the defense lawyer is usually trying his / her best to impress ICBC.

After Client tried with two lawyers and by himself to persuade the Crown and the Provincial Court to allow him to see his son, he retained Vancouver Criminal Defense Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan to represent him in an appeal to the Supreme Court to change the bail order.

When I was a defense lawyer and before HIPAA came into effect, I would try to set an appointment with the Plaintiff's treating and family doctors and establish rapport.

Once you've tried handling things yourself and things aren't improving, or you just don't know what to do next, it's time to get a foreclosure defense lawyer's help.

If you have tried submitting a modification and failed, I would recommend consulting with a foreclosure defense lawyer.

First and foremost, your policy provides a lawyer to not only defend you, but also to try to settle the matter within your policy limits before it gets to the point of needing a defense.

There's news reports that debt collectors are getting pushier and pushier in trying to collect debts — something that comes as no surprise to Florida foreclosure defense lawyers, where clients are routinely having to deal with debt collection practices — on the phone, in the mail — sometimes, for the first time in their lives.