1.   Also low-income African-Americans often cannot afford lawyers to win them more lenient sentences.

2.   Because he could not afford a lawyer, he chose to represent himself.

3.   Because they cannot afford lawyers, they are representing themselves.

4.   Both Taylors told the judge they could not afford lawyers and were assigned public defenders.

5.   A murder defendant who cannot afford a lawyer can expect to have one appointed for him.

6.   After the Riddle family saw they could not afford a lawyer, the court appointed Earwood to represent the eighth-grader, at no cost to them.

7.   Al Salmi, who spoke in Arabic even though he acknowledged knowing English, claimed that he was unemployed and could not afford a lawyer.

8.   But this isolation also prevents them from using the law libraries in the detention centers, a particular hardship for those who cannot afford lawyers.

9.   Complicated regulations, he said, could keep organizations from pursuing activities online if they cannot afford lawyers.

10.   Every defendant rich enough to afford four lawyers must be required to provide two lawyers to the impecunious defendant in the courtroom next door.