Addressing reporters after last week's ruling, lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara expressed hope that his client's detention once again would be short-lived.

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Lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara said he will try to use the evidence if prosecutors attempt to attack Zimmerman's character during his trial on second-degree murder charges, set to begin next month.

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Defense attorney Roger Rosen, who often acted as lead defense attorney after Cutler's early woes, will give the non-scientific portion of the summation, with forensic scientist Linda Kenney-Baden offering the address on the forensic evidence.

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Hutchins' lead defense attorney, Richard Brannon, countered that the actions of Hutchins and his men was "a failure of command, " alluding to allegations that their platoon leader's rough handling of some detainees sent the wrong message to the Marines.

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Lead defense attorney Ted Wells portrayed Libby as a fall-guy caught up in a White House effort to protect presidential political adviser Karl Rove, who turned out to be one of the sources for Robert Novak's column on July 14, 2003, that outed Plame.

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Prominent Washington attorney Charles Cooper will lead the defense of Proposition 8, the California referendum against same-sex marriage.

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"It's ironic that the Bush Administration, which acts like Superman most of the time, doing exactly what it wants to, is acting like a 97-pound weakling in this case, saying it doesn't have the authority to act, " says David Doniger, lead attorney on the case for the National Resources Defense Council.

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