dump truck n.— «Once they realize you’re not resisting their demand to go to trial and their demand that they pay you some attention…then they will drop their resistance to a plea bargain based specifically on you as the dump truck...
dump truck n. a lawyer seen as too willing to plead cases, especially a public defender. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
dump truck n.— «dump truck (dump truk) n. Slang. A criminal lawyer who seldom fights a case, but who plea-bargains his way to a fast guilty plea.» —“Fifth Column; Law And Society” by Clayton Ruby Globe and...
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...
hillbilly armor n.— «We were able to install ballistic windows (that we will have to take off and put on another truck when it is their turn to convoy) and put these strange flexible kevlar sleeves over our plastic doors to go along with...
angel n.— «Within an hour, the two Marines, along with an Iraqi Civil Defense Corps soldier who broke his arms and a leg when his truck crashed and rolled over on a local road, were flown by helicopter to the Army’s 31st Combat Surgical...