Sentence examples for decent lawyer from inspiring English sources

Miscarriages of justice for ordinary people will increase because they can't get a decent lawyer".

The head of the PCGG, Richard Amurao, is a conspicuously decent lawyer, aged 41, who spent five years as a commissioner before becoming chairman last year.

And how could he not also raise the question of why those who end up on death row are invariably those who can't afford a decent lawyer?

European politicians and intellectuals, who view the death penalty as a human rights issue, are incredulous that Americans support a punishment that fails to deter crime, targets mainly those who cannot afford a decent lawyer, is used on the mentally retarded and has often gotten the wrong man.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee -- her only published book -- "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the story of Atticus Finch, a humble and impeccably decent lawyer in a small Southern town at the height of the Depression.

Then, when the case was moved from Boston to Delaware, Ogden's counsel tried to prevent Connell from getting a decent lawyer.

Those rich enough to afford decent lawyers are less likely to be sentenced to death.

After the Justice Department finishes writing the regulations, Mr. Gonzales will get the job of deciding whether states are providing condemned inmates with decent lawyers.

It's partly a question of meritocracy: in a land in which appointments are invariably made through nepotism rather than competence, it's perhaps inevitable that any investigation has holes in it and that decent lawyers are able to find them.

But to some extent such circumstances can be hedged against with insurance policies and the efforts of a decent matrimonial lawyer.

And you can be sure that any decent defense lawyer is going to raise this issue if there is a trial — particularly if the government decides to use admissions that might have been made during the agency's administrative hearings.