Sentence examples for was assigned to represent from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.

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.

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.

January 2012 - Jennifer Willmott, a death penalty-qualified defense attorney, was assigned to represent Arias.

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

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.

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.

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.