district man

American  

noun

1. a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.

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Example Sentences

Now, attorneys for a District man accused of spray-painting “Yall not tired yet?” at the Lincoln Memorial during a May 2020 protest over George Floyd’s murder by police have asked a judge to end what they call the systemic underrepresentation of Black people in the potential jury pool for federal trials.

From Washington Post

A District man who repeatedly violated the terms of his release after a 1998 slaying, but was not reported by the D.C. agency charged with monitoring him, has been indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in the March slaying of his neighbor Javed Bhutto in Southeast Washington.

From Washington Post

A District man has pleaded guilty to two counts of voluntary manslaughter in a traffic collision in July that killed two men sitting on a park bench in Northwest Washington.

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A District man charged with fatally beating his girlfriend’s toddler son was acquitted on all charges Friday after an emotional trial during which the defense argued the boy’s 7-year-old sister may have caused his injuries.

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A District man faces more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter after he struck and killed a bicyclist in April in the stolen van he was driving as he was fleeing police.

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