1.   The issues the Republicans deem worthy of constitutional protection are a motley lot of special-interest pleadings.

2.   The toughs, a motley lot of no particular intelligence, trail her.

3.   The prisoners are a motley lot, a mix of nationalities and affiliations who probably hold differing legal rights, lawyers said.

4.   Very few can afford to hire lawyers of their own choosing, and the lawyers who take death cases are a motley lot.