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An attorney appointed by a court or employed by the government to represent indigent defendants in criminal actions. Cross-referencespublic defender n. an elected or appointed public official (usually of a county), who is an attorney regularly assigned by the courts to defend people accused of crimes who cannot afford a private attorney. In larger counties the public defender has a large case load, numerous deputy public defenders and office staff. In each Federal Judicial District there is also a federal public defender, and some states have a state public defender to supervise the provision of attorneys to convicted indigents for appeals. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The center has a children's waiting area, office space for the county counsel, a children's law center and offices for those who work on juvenile cases: prosecutors, public defenders, alternate public defenders, court-appointed special advocates and personnel from the Department of Children and Family Services and Probation Department. Efforts to form a combined union of Los Angeles prosecutors and public defenders may have foundered because a key prosecutor wants to include deputy sheriffs. routinely assign Mexican defendants public defenders who "speak little or no Spanish and have no experience in death penalty cases. |
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