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criminal lawyer

American  

noun

  1. a person who specializes in the practice of criminal law.


Etymology

Origin of criminal lawyer

First recorded in 1885–90


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The attorney did not argue, as Grossman’s criminal lawyer did, that it was Erickson who hit the boys first.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

Mr. Kempt, who worked as a criminal lawyer in the Arctic for almost two decades, conjures this forbidding landscape and its residents with artful authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

He has 20 years' experience working as a criminal lawyer, specialising in fraud.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

Another of the public viewers was a criminal lawyer who had previously attended Richard Nixon’s funeral just to “hang around” and wanted to be here for this piece of history surrounding a “similar, colorful crook.”

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2024

After authorization by President Arthur and the cabinet, Attorney General MacVeagh added two prominent trial attorneys to the prosecution team to assist Corkhill, who was a less-experienced criminal lawyer.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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