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lawyer .
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Examples
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What he apparently didn't realize was that McKinney was lawyerless during this period, and that every major investigative finding -- the recantations of the State's star witnesses, the confession by an alternative suspect and the corroborated statements of an alibi witness -- was unearthed solely by the journalism students.
David Protess: Keeping You Posted: Is Texas About to Kill an Innocent Man? Also, the Subpoena That Keeps on Giving David Protess 2011
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What he apparently didn't realize was that McKinney was lawyerless during this period, and that every major investigative finding -- the recantations of the State's star witnesses, the confession by an alternative suspect and the corroborated statements of an alibi witness -- was unearthed solely by the journalism students.
David Protess: Keeping You Posted: Is Texas About to Kill an Innocent Man? Also, the Subpoena That Keeps on Giving David Protess 2011
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What he apparently didn't realize was that McKinney was lawyerless during this period, and that every major investigative finding -- the recantations of the State's star witnesses, the confession by an alternative suspect and the corroborated statements of an alibi witness -- was unearthed solely by the journalism students.
David Protess: Keeping You Posted: Is Texas About to Kill an Innocent Man? Also, the Subpoena That Keeps on Giving David Protess 2011
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Immigration judges and immigration lawyers undoubtedly have difficulty trying to decipher the nuances of immigration law; it's an even greater perversion of justice to expect that a deportable and lawyerless immigrant facing a harsh and impatient judge would be able to comprehend and apply laws and rules that even Supreme Court Justices find confusing.
Bennett L. Gershman: How Immigration Courts Contaminate American Justice Bennett L. Gershman 2012
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Imagine a young man from New York City guiding visitors at Yellowstone, or a young woman from Mississippi representing lawyerless defendants in Boston.
Dan Ross: An Army of Nation Builders: How National Conscription Can Save Public Education Dan Ross 2011
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What he apparently didn't realize was that McKinney was lawyerless during this period, and that every major investigative finding -- the recantations of the State's star witnesses, the confession by an alternative suspect and the corroborated statements of an alibi witness -- was unearthed solely by the journalism students.
David Protess: Keeping You Posted: Is Texas About to Kill an Innocent Man? Also, the Subpoena That Keeps on Giving David Protess 2011
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Imagine a young man from New York City guiding visitors at Yellowstone, or a young woman from Mississippi representing lawyerless defendants in Boston.
Dan Ross: An Army of Nation Builders: How National Conscription Can Save Public Education Dan Ross 2011
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Better to keep going after powerless, and often lawyerless, targets.
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Fortunately, the little, lawyerless people have been able to resist Scientologist censorship via the Internet yay, Internet!
Tom Cruise on Scientology: The Banned Video | Mind on Fire 2008
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Edwards quotes lawyerless Algren's "then-agent" on his getting "easily fleeced" by Otto Preminger.
Nelson Algren: An Exchange Drew, Bettina 1990
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