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public defender

NOUN
  1. a lawyer who represents indigent defendants at public expense

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  • After the trial, Usee's public defenders, Gay Glaze and Jason McGee, filed multiple motions for a new trial, one of them based on Glaze's claim that he saw the "Somalian" comment on Gray-Larson's Facebook page, along with a comment about having a "Johnnie on the jury," -- a reference to St. John's University -- and a reference to someone else being an StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Robert Baum, a public defender who represented Chapman in connection with the plea deal, told Declassified via e-mail: "I don't know if she got paid, but if she did, she is entitled to keep the money.
  • He was accused of a felony; she was the public defender.
  • But opponents have seized on another fish tale -- Mr. Goetschel's defense of the big pike -- to argue that a mandatory public defender could make for absurd results.
  • Public defender Barry Collins was repeatedly blocked from unveiling possible discrepancies between police reports taken from the same witnesses at different times.
  • But her voice never even quavered, and that made me think she might actually make a decent public defender.
  • He cried so much that he barely could talk to his public defender, Dale Nielson.
  • -- Is this weblogging lawyer really the "typical overworked, frazzled public defender"? The Legal Underground:
  • Public defender Pat Murphy is representing a third juvenile who previously pleaded guilty to the same charge.
  • It is a cookie cutter assemblage of downward spiral answers (anger management, detox treatment, and Inquisitor style trials) all posited in a totally hypothetic context by so-called “public defenders,” who are so ineffective that after 4 months, Chad Redhouse dismissed them and is trying to be his own lawyer. Bullying prosecutorial Tactics on Navajo Accused of Battery Met with "MOTIONS"
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