Sentence examples for being assigned to represent from inspiring English sources

Her voice conveyed the frustration she feels at being assigned to represent Mr. Padilla but not being permitted to do so in any way that might be effective.

Several lawyers who were assigned to represent the defendants said their clients would plead not guilty.

"We're sharing laughs over beers about how my friend was assigned to represent a pimp," he says.

I swear.' " Gatto said, "All I could think was, What kind of terrorists are these?" Gatto was assigned to represent Issa.

Steven Kay, a British lawyer who had been assigned to represent Milosevic, said that the former Serb leader would not have fled, and was not suicidal.

Appeals brought out that his lawyer had also been assigned to represent the 17-year-old victim in a criminal case in juvenile court.

Recently, the office was assigned to represent the woman accused of kidnapping a baby from Harlem Hospital 23 years ago and raising the infant as her own.

They say she failed to disclose the payment when she submitted bills for $59,471 to the court in the case, for a defendant she was assigned to represent because he was supposedly indigent.

Ms. Newman is an attorney who was assigned to represent Jose Padilla, the former Chicago gang member accused of participating in a Qaeda plot to detonate a radioactive bomb in the United States.

A State Supreme Court justice has issued an order that would more than double the hourly rate paid to private lawyers who are assigned to represent the poor in New York City courts.

The groups said the Pentagon had not provided adequate financing to military defense lawyers who are to be assigned to represent all detainees charged with war crimes in a process that the groups said permitted convictions based on "secret evidence, hearsay and confessions derived from torture".