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She is considered an accomplished trial attor ney, most notably winning convic tions against serial rapists Bruce Sterling and Ricardo Cepates in separate cases.
Become a Republican to get a Dem-controlled job? In NJ? Dan 2008
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Connecticut Democrats who remember Lieberman as a liberal state senator and crusading attor-ney general complain privately about his tack to the center in recent years.
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But New York attor-ney Susan Chana Lask says she's spoken with more than 300 patients, including Makinen, who have experienced "Ambien zombie" effects.
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The information so generously supplied to me by attor - ney Steven Keppler of the bad comb-over had been handed off to Susan.
Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005
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As to the first question, San Francisco attor-ney Marty
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Peremptory challenges are those that do not require the attor - ney to give a reason for the challenge.
What You Should Know If You're Accused of a Crime David, Joyce B. 1986
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Leonard Kellogg, willful killing of a sapient being, to wit, Jane Doe alias Goldilocks, aborigine, race Zarathustran Fuzzy; complainant, Jack Holloway, defendant's attor-ney of record, Leslie Coombes.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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The brilliant scarlet coral-like berries which are found set closely about the erect spike of the arum in the autumn [35] are known to country lads as adder's meat -- a name corrupted from the Anglo-Saxon _attor_, "poison," as originally applied to these berries, though it is remarkable that pheasants can eat them with impunity.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Cf. oruð, l. 2558, and l. 2840 (where attor - also occurs). l.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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His language I will not repeat -- but canting knave, hypocrite, rascal attor -- no, it is useless and unedifying to repeat it.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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