Sentences with phrase «own defense attorney»

His aunt told Time: «Why do we even need defense attorneys if they just tell the jury he is guilty?

Levitt, who is paid $ 450 an hour by the prosecution, also acknowledged under cross-examination by defense attorneys he speaks neither Arabic nor Russian and is not an expert on Islam.

Edwards» defense attorneys, however, quickly challenged Young's credibility, saying that he consulted with three other witnesses about his testimony and that he was a greedy staffer.

But as defense attorney firm Perlmutter & McGuiness points out, simple possession can often induce «intent to distribute» charges regardless of the drug amount involved.

-- Oliver Harris, trial lawyer, prosecutor and criminal defense attorney.

Stockley believed that Smith was armed, defense attorneys said, and a gun was found in the car.

Steven Feldman, a former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York who is a member of the New York State Bar Association's White Collar Committee, which Hendon cochairs, called Hendon a «fantastic pick» for Trump who is «an all - around superstar» in the «upper echelon» of white - collar defense attorneys in the city.

«He certainly was not above putting on a good show,» said defense attorney Ricky Harris of Spartanburg in South Carolina's northwestern «Upstate.»

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

«If someone is admitting that they committed the murder, it's a pretty tough burden to get a jury to say, «Let's excuse him anyway,»» said Dallas defense attorney Michael Snipes.

Houston defense attorney George Parnham, who was not involved in the case, said it lets jurors assume such a verdict could mean the defendant «will ride down the elevator» with them.

Defense attorneys are focusing their efforts not on proving Tsarnaev's innocence but on trying to spare his life by persuading the jury that Tamerlan bore the brunt of the blame.

His defense attorneys are arguing that Tamerlan, Dzhokhar's older brother, was the driving force behind the attack and influenced Dzhokhar to participate.

Indeed, lead defense attorney Judy Clarke has a history of compiling exhaustive histories of her clients.

Despite the rejections, Trump boosted his legal defense team with a little - know lawyer named Andrew Ekonomou, who will take on a more prominent role in communicating with Mueller's office following the resignation of former lead defense attorney John Dowd.

Defense attorneys have already said the 21 - year - old defendant committed all the crimes he is accused of, but they also contend Tsarnaev did so in an act of subservience to his older brother, not because of a personal passion.

Defense attorney William Fick asked Swindon whether the files he discussed in court represented a «fly speck» of data held on the laptop, which was otherwise filled with files like homework assignments and pop music clips.

Earlier this year, John Dowd, the seasoned white - collar defense attorney who was leading Trump's negotiations with Mueller's office, resigned amid frustration that Trump was not following his advice to decline an interview.

The documents, which Fortune has not seen directly, were entered into evidence by a defense attorney in the troubled prosecution of a California doctor accused of possessing child pornography.

Those defense attorneys are now enjoying a certain amount of celebrity, while other lawyers and law enforcement officials depicted in the Netflix series haven't been so lucky.

While defense attorneys Strang and Buting have had the opportunity to bask in praise since Making a Murderer debuted, Kratz has seen the opposite response.

Like Shapiro, Robert Kardashian was one of Simpson's defense attorneys.

Robert Shapiro was a member of Simpson's «Dream Team» of defense attorneys.

F. Lee Bailey was the Simpson defense attorney who cross-examined Mark Fuhrman.

«The example of Oklahoma should be very troubling for Arkansas officials,» said Dale Baich, a defense attorney who represented Joseph Wood, who died in similarly grotesque circumstances in a botched execution involving midazolam in Arizona that same year.

Now a defense attorney specializing in immigration and DUI law, he has had his Yelp page flooded with negative comments, and the attorney claims he has been inundated with death threats.

Dassey's subsequent defense attorneys spent years arguing that Kachinsky failed to properly defend his client and that Dassey, who had confessed during interrogations, should get a new trial as a result.

Today he still practices law, although he's not a prosecutor any more — he's now a criminal defense attorney.

The show has thrust the criminal defense attorney into the national spotlight and his eloquent and impassioned arguments in Avery's trial even inspired something of a cult following for the Wisconsin lawyer (with some even deeming Strang the show's «sex symbol»).

Defense attorneys alleged that he planted the second glove in a racially motivated attempt to frame the athlete, and asked if he had used racial epithets in the past.

Tai Park, former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York and a noted white - collar defense attorney.

Shari Redstone, a former criminal defense attorney, serves as president and owns 20 % of the family holding company, National Amusements Inc..

[162] Corzine resigned as CEO on November 4, 2011, after having retained the services of defense attorney Andrew J. Levander.

More than four years later, Zambada — who currently resides in a federal prison in Milan, Michigan — still has not been tried, in part because of endless wrangling by prosecutors and defense attorneys on the size and scope of the pretrial legal discovery.

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

Instead you're a criminal defense attorney in Tennessee, lol.

Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney in the public defender's office (left) listens as defense attorney Francisco Ugarte addresses the press outside of the courtroom after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty.

That's the language a prosecutor, not a defense attorney, would use to explain illegal activity.

Laughter suddenly erupted in the courtroom, without the jurors present, as all who were there simultaneously recalled defense attorney Benjamin Brafman's reference to the work and planning that goes into manufacturing bags of potato chips.

In 2014, pre-trial hearings for the accused 9/11 co-conspirators snarled after defense attorneys revealed indications that the FBI had turned their technical adviser into a secret informant, prompting the judge in that case to prohibit monitoring attorney - client communications in November 2016.

Defense attorneys pointed to Tamerlan's relationship with his wife to demonstrate his ability to influence his younger brother Dzhokhar, as they began their case Monday in the sentencing phase of Dzhokhar's trial.

The probate lawyer handling the estate of accused Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's late mother must be allowed to talk to Cruz before turning over information about his possible net worth to his defense attorneys, a Broward judge ruled Thursday.

Prosecutors also fear that Manning might not be a cooperative witness and that defense attorneys might raise questions about her credibility, officials familiar with the case said.

A defense attorney in a court filing says special counsel Robert Mueller has disclosed he has no evidence that former Trump campaign manager Paul...

Sol Wisenberg, a defense attorney who was a deputy independent counsel during the Starr special counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton, said the comment «obviously increases the president's exposure to potential campaign finance violations, but it also makes him look terrible.»

Just as anthropologists often go native, even the best biographers sometimes turn into defense attorneys.

The article doesn't address any court proceedings, but I'm sure they had a fair trial and were duly represented by competent defense attorneys.

Bishop is a criminal defense attorney in Chicago.

High - priced defense attorney Alan Dershowitz was brought in to argue that children would benefit from seeing Kids, but the appeals board upheld the original rating.

I can already hear the objections from the defense attorney (the church).