Indigent

Indigent
One who is poor and cannot afford basic neccessities of life like food, shelter and clothes. It also refers to a defendant who cannot afford a lawyer/attorney to fight the case.

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.

INDIGENT - Lacking in funds; poor. see in forma pauperis.
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indigent
1) n. a person so poor and needy that he/she cannot provide the necessities of life (food, clothing, decent shelter) for himself/herself. 2) n. one without sufficient income to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case.

INDIGENT: Lacking in funds; poor.
INFORMATION: A formal accusation of a crime, issued by a prosecutor. An alternative to an indictment.

INDIGENT - Lacking in funds; poor. Representation may be provided at no cost to a defendant by either Legal Aid (felonies) or Assigned Counsel (18-b; misdemeanors and some violations).

indigent (noun or adjective) Technically, referring to a person who is entitled, because of poverty, to an attorney and certain other court services at public expense; the term is often used in a general sense to mean impoverished, poor, or needy.

indigent: This term usually refers to a person that is poor, needy, and has no one to look to for support.

INDIGENT -- Impoverished; needy; poor; without funds.
Infanticide - Murder of an infant soon after its birth.
INFERIOR COURT -- Lower court. Any court subordinate to a higher appellate court in a particular judicial system.

Indigent judgment-proof defendants are no longer imprisoned; debtor's prisons have been outlawed by statute, constitutional amendment, or international human rights treaties in the vast majority of common law jurisdictions.

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Indigence The state of being an indigent. Indigent One who cannot (or claims he cannot) pay his own way. Also used to describe such persons, i.e., "John Smith is indigent.

indigent defendant - A person indicted or complained of who is without funds or ability to hire a lawyer to defend him is, in most instances, entitled to appointed counsel to represent him at every stage of the criminal proceedings, ...

governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S.

"Now, indeed, through the culpable neglect of gentlemen of property, this office has been suffered to fall into disrepute, and get into low and indigent hands; so that, ...

COURT-APPOINTED ATTORNEY - Refers to legal counsel assigned by the court to represent an indigent criminal defendant.

As a word of discourse, Signifies need, (egestas, necessitas, indigentia.) It comes from behoove, (Sax. behoven,) to need or have need of.

There are 11 public defenders in the state, and 121 assistant public defenders representing indigent people in 13 counties. (If the person is found guilty, he must repay the state).

APPOINTED COUNSEL: Attorneys appointed by a judge or court to represent the defendant, usually in case of an indigent.
APPREHEND: To arrest, seize.

A court-appointed attorney for those defendants who are declared indigent.
Public Law:
The law such as traffic ordinances or zoning ordinances which applies to the public.

Public Defender: An attorney appointed and paid by the state who defends a person in a criminal case after the court finds that the person is indigent--financially unable to hire a private attorney.
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public defender - Lawyers regularly employed by the government to represent people accused of crimes who cannot afford to hire their own. The term may also be used to refer to a private firm receiving public money to defend indigent criminal ...

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