disbarin a sentence
- He wrote a scathing letter published in the state bar association's journal in which he vowed "never to take another death penalty case, even if they disbar me for my refusal" and urged other civil lawyers not to take death penalty cases.† (source)
- McAfee had committed the grievous sin of dragging Josie into this, and Alex's mind spiraled wildly as she wondered what she could do to get him fired, or even disbarred.† (source)
- The humiliation of his disbarment had faded.† (source)
- In fury, the balding imperious professor of law stared at the gray-faced old disbarred and dishonored attorney in front of him.† (source)
- Disbarred, or whatever the phrase is.† (source)
- You need some free legal advice from a disbarred lawyer.† (source)
- "Surely," said the seventy-year-old disbarred attorney, giving the page to his former student.† (source)
- He was a lawyer there until he got himself disbarred about fifteen years ago.† (source)
- "And perhaps something more," continued the old disbarred attorney.† (source)
- Left Batavia sixteen years ago—1950....He was a lawyer, got disbarred.† (source)
- The lawyer, who was subsequently disbarred and jailed for unrelated criminal misconduct, also never challenged the State's decision to try Trina as an adult.† (source)
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- Following the imposition of the death sentence, Herbert's appointed lawyer, who was later disbarred for poor performance in other cases, told Herbert that he didn't see any reason to appeal the conviction or sentence because the trial had been as fair as he could expect.† (source)
- Two feisty individuals and an over-imaginative disbarred judge are more than an Ontario ranch boy can handle.† (source)
- The dean was waiting on us at school, threatened to kill us or at least disbar us before we even graduated.† (source)
- The disbarred attorney chuckled.† (source)
- Jake's trump card was a key provision in Mississippi law that required a disbarred lawyer to take the bar exam before being reinstated.† (source)
- You can be disbarred at thirty or thirty-five and still get by, but when you're disbarred at fifty and your trial is given national press along with a jail sentence, you'd be shocked at how your options disappear-even for a learned man.† (source)
- The disbarment had happened not long after Jake hired on, and Lucien had kept his distance from the office and from the law.† (source)
- He'd lost his license to practice nine years earlier, and, according to the terms of his disbarment, he could now apply for reinstatement.† (source)
- An irreproachable Zeus-like figure in the legal world did not pay a disbarred, discredited, deniable alcoholic "scum" like one Brendan Patrick Pierre Prefontaine an outrageous sum of money because his soul was with the archangels of heaven.† (source)
- No, he was permanently disbarred, which means, in his case, he has to wait eight years before he can apply for reinstatement.† (source)
- Through a gentleman named Peter Holland at the Central Intelligence Agency, I was given an introduction to your friend Sir Henry Sykes over in Montserrat, who in turn introduced me to a retired London barrister St. Jacques rose quickly from the table to replenish his drink, his eyes warily on the former, disbarred judge.† (source)
- The streak ended when Lucien, the last remaining Wilbanks and no doubt the craziest, had been disbarred.† (source)
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