Court-appointed attorney -Attorney appointed by the court to represent a defendant, usually with respect to criminal charges and without the defendant having to pay for the representation.
COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEY - Refers to legal counsel assigned by the court to represent an indigent criminal defendant.
Court-Appointed Attorney: An attorney who is asked by the court (judge) to either represent a party to the case, or to serve in some other capacity that the case requires.
Public defender - A court-appointed attorney for those defendants who are declared indigent.
Putative - commonly accepted or supposed; assumed to exist or to have existed.
Indigent - Needy or impoverished. A defendant who can demonstrate his or her indigence to the court may be assigned a court-appointed attorney at public expense.
Or to set a fee, for example, an order telling a defendant to pay back the county for costs for a court-appointed attorney.
 See also: Defendant, Process, Sentence, Action, Charge
  
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