Federal prosecutors objected to the unusual move, saying that allowing two separate lawyers to question their witness amounted to giving the defense a "second bite of the apple".
"You need fifty separate lawyers to be appointed, who even if they have great experience, don't have the same knowledge that institutional defenders bring to the case".
But since Mr. Velazquez was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, Mr. Brown has recanted his identification in three separate interviews with lawyers and investigators.
Once the city files its formal charges against the boys, the two will have separate lawyers to avoid conflicts of interest.
It is the worst possible time, you are trying to deal with these issues, and then there are three separate transactions: the lawyer, the cemetery, and the funeral home.
The two lawyers under scrutiny for insider trading bought and sold stock of a financial services company after the third lawyer informed them of three separate investigations of the company.
Ali said the lawyer was prevented from dropping off the necessary paperwork on at least three separate occasions this week.
Mr. Rajab's lawyer, Mohamed Al-Jishi, said that his client was given yearlong sentences on three separate charges of "participating in illegal rallies and gatherings".
(It has received two separate appraisals, but lawyers for Mr. Ahuja, James Frankel and Andrew Ross of Arent Fox in Manhattan, declined to disclose the valuations).
And while they are now back on the path to expansion and profitability, somewhere along the way the companies realized it was pointless to continue competing against each other — they were spending hundreds of millions of dollars in TV advertising each year just to outcompete the other, while also paying two separate sets of lawyers and lobbyists to obtain the same thing — legalization.
