Can they rely on a clever lawyer to get them free?
Ten years perhaps, or even five, if she has a clever lawyer and makes good use of her charms.
If he didn't, some clever lawyer would get the boy off on a technicality.
They overlook the fact that the district attorney is as clever a lawyer as the state can find.
To the public, he had "got away with it" thanks to a clever lawyer.
A clever lawyer could nullify it in five minutes.
Is it more important than getting a clever lawyer to defend his son?
We couldn't hold him an hour if a clever lawyer got busy on the case.
Not like in your country, where some clever lawyer lets them escape punishment!
Then clever lawyers devised methods of taking security over personal property, and the courts followed.