dump truck n.— «Some lawyers contend that a handful of high-volume practitioners like Stern have bled the Ontario Legal Aid Plan dry by setting up veritable plea factories. They’ve even given them a name: “dumptrucks.”» —“High-volume lawyer dodges...
dump truck n.— «Clients often refer to their public defenders as “dump trucks,” a term that apparently derives from the defendant’s belief that defenders are not interested in giving a vigorous defense, but rather seek only to “dump” them as...
dump truck n.— «“Dump truck” is what attorney’s call other attorney’s who mostly just plead their clients guilty, instead of trying cases.» —“Arizona DUI” Law Office Of David Alan Darby (Tucson, Ariz.) Mar. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued...
dump truck n.— «“One of the cruel ironies is that on the tier in any prison, the person most inmates name as responsible for them being there is ‘the dump truck P.D.,’” said David Coleman, the public defender in Contra Costa County, Calif. “Thus...
spin v.— «Agents often make early commitments to more than one horse in a race, figuring that the field will thin out by the time post positions are drawn. But if both horses enter, one of the trainers will be jilted. Jockeys also can back out of a...
veepicide n.— «The subject of the piece was whether President Bush would dump Vice President Cheney from the ticket.Hellip;In order to qualify as news, veepicide stories should be anchored to something real.» —“All the Rumors Fit To Print” by Jack...
