Ms Gatto asked Ms. Mangan-Valle why she had declined to speak to defense counsel before the trial.
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"Like anybody that's facing criminal charges in the military arena, he's entitled to a defense counsel, " Galligan told the station.
Working as an expert witness for Mr. Page's defense counsel, I brought him to a lab to assess his brain functioning.
Since 2003, the U.S. Army has funded all defense counsel travel for courts-martial, beginning with the initial detailing of counsel to a client.
Judge Sand said that McAllister could become a witness in the stabbing case, thereby influencing his role as defense counsel in the bombing case.
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Carlton Terry Jr. was overseeing a child custody case, according to the Dispatch and became friends with the defense counsel, Charles Schieck, on Facebook.
Pohl, who added that in 12 years as a military judge, this was the first case where a defense counsel had asked that the full charges be read in court.
In the beginning of the trial, lead defense counsel Raja Aziz applied for a watching brief that would allow international observers to sit with the lawyers and monitor the trial.
While all of those who testified were not happy about their losses (one even flipped off defense counsel Jeffrey Hoffman), they were intelligent enough to know their investment bore extensive risk.
"Defense counsel asked the boy completely irrelevant and repetitive personal questions about whether he sends text messages, whether he send text messages from his phone, and whether he 'tweets, '" they said.
Soon I will send to Congress a proposal to fund special training for defense counsel in capital cases, because people on trial for their lives must have competent lawyers by their side.
For defense counsel, this disconnect can be vexing.
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They were among the lucky few who ventured to go to trial, who could afford top-notch defense counsel, and whose trial was presided over by a judge who did not act like part of the prosecution team.
At sentencing, it is common for defense counsel and judges alike to invoke the passage of time and intervening efforts by the cooperating witness to acknowledge his or her wrongdoing as factors in favor of a reduced sentence.
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This allows counsel to get "actively involved in cases at the earliest stages, defense counsel have successfully negotiated non-punitive dispositions of cases that otherwise may have been disposed of at courts-martial, " according to the Report of the Judge Advocate General for Fiscal Year 2005.
The wheels of his capital prosecution have now been set in motion after the offer made by Holmes' defense counsel to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life imprisonment without the chance of parole was rejected by Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler.
"The counsel for for defense says he sees no evil in his client, " Ebert said.
Mr. GLEN LAVY (Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund): When children are raised without a mom or a dad, they are missing something.
Ms. Gorelick, who now is at WilmerHale, worked at Justice during the Clinton administration and also is a former general counsel for the Defense Department.
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One of those private e-mails at issue involved an exchange between Martin and Vickie Patton, the General Counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund, regarding an arranged meeting with him.
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Even before that, Frazier, who as general counsel had led the defense against the lawsuits resulting from the painkiller Vioxx before taking over the health division, had seemed to have the inside track among current executives.
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In 1993, she took a job as the general counsel for the Department of Defense.
In late November defense contractor Dyncorp International dismissed its general counsel amid an investigation into possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
In the matter under discussion, it will be somewhat misguided for legal counsel to argue facilely in defense of their U.S.corporate clients that the Shariah authorities were employed strictly to issue legal rulings on financial matters and all other rulings fall outside the scope of their employment.
Mr. DANIEL DELL'ORTO (Deputy General Counsel, United States Department of Defense): All Congress need to do, assuming it has taken the opportunity to review the commission processes as currently configured, is to ratify that process, and we can move on very, very quickly.
We're joined know by Ted Shaw, director counsel and president of the NAACP legal defense fund.
Mr. TED SHAW (Director-counsel, and President of NAACP Legal Defense Fund): Well, it does, Ed.
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