court-appointed lawyer

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lawyer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlɔɪ.ər/us
/ˈlɔɪ.jɚ/
someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law and speak for them ...
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(Definition oflawyerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is not right for the court to appear to enter the arena and it is a better safeguard for the defendant to have acourt-appointedlawyer.
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By the advice of thecourt-appointedlawyerhe wrote a letter of confession and was immediately arrested for two months.
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Going on trial in 1982, he initially decided to represent himself, but was repeatedly reprimanded for disruptive behavior and given acourt-appointedlawyer.
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He completed law school and spent one year as acourt-appointedlawyer.
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He gave up his right to acourt-appointedlawyerand defended himself successfully.
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Throneberry fired hercourt-appointedlawyerand represented herself in court.
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After his father's death, acourt-appointedlawyersearched through the late count's effects on behalf of his nine children, to reclaim what remained of the family's dissipated fortune.
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Berezovsky was represented by acourt-appointedlawyer.
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Represented by acourt-appointedlawyer, he rejected a plea bargain that would have limited his prison sentence to the three years he had already served in the federal case.
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Asahara was defended by court-appointed lawyers and asked not to be defended.
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