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When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys. -- Christine Pelosi
Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. -- John Grisham
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong. -- John Grisham
The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state. -- George Gilder
While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks. -- Andrew Thomas
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. -- Pat Robertson
You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times. -- King Felipe VI
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay. -- Hari Kunzru
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation. -- Matt Gonzalez
When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice. -- David Blunkett
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. -- Andrew Sullivan
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. -- C. S. Lewis
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war. -- Samantha Power
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly. -- Dave Sim
The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there is a Democrat in the White House, and they are party loyalists and hacks before they are public servants. -- Glenn Greenwald
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. -- Julian Assange

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