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lawyer up
verb
to refuse to cooperate with a police investigation until provided with legal counsel US- Lawyering up: A suspect’s decision to stop answering questions and ask for legal counsel. — Samuel Katz, NYPD, 1995
- An eyewitness who says she saw two Italians matching the descriptions of the killers chasing a Puerto Rican earlier that day calls in, and two suspects are brought in–and quickly lawyered up[.] — alt.tv.nypd-blue, 16 March 1995
- “A grieving husband doesn’t run out the moment his wife is murdered and get an attorney he’s never hired before. That’s what we call ‘lawyering up,’ and grieving husbands don’t do that.” — Gary King, Murder in Hollywood, p. 175, 2001
- “I really don’t want to do this either, but if I have to, I can lawyer up as soon as I get off this phone.” — Richard Price, Samaritan, p. 289, 2003
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