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[The suspect’s] lawyer, Jeff Mulliner, heavily stressed with jurors that [his client’s] past made it all the more critical for them to prove a point with prosecutors.

“If ever there was a time to apply the burden of proof and really require the state to prove their case beyond reasonable doubt,” Mulliner told jurors, “this is the kind of case to show those principles mean something.”

It didn't take jurors long to reach a verdict: Not guilty.

(Quote from article “DWI Suspects Have Way to Thwart Prosecutors,” San Antonio Express-News, April 6, 2008 by Karisa King)

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A jury quickly decided Thursday that [Jeff Mulliner’s client] was sufficiently in control of herself to be guilty of trying to arrange her husband's murder, and then deliberated more than four hours before sentencing Sickles to seven years in prison.

“I don't believe there was a plea bargain that could have gotten her less,” said defense lawyer Jeff Mulliner.

(Quote from article “Woman Is Guilty in Murder-for-Hire,” San Antonio Express-News, December 8, 2006 by Elizabeth Allen)

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When [his] attorney, Jeff Mulliner, first asked about the possibility of a plea bargain, prosecutors said they would be willing to offer the defendant a life sentence, the maximum.

“They weren't going to plead it out,” Mulliner said. “It was just going to have to be a dogfight.'”

(Quote from the article “Long Road to a Quick Deal,” San Antonio Express-News, September 25, 2005 by Maro Robbins and Tom Bower