Public Defenders - the state provides legal counsel for defendants who have been determined by a judge as financially unable to hire their own attorney.
public defenders (or defense attorney): Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters. Return to Top
record: A written account of all the acts and proceedings in a lawsuit.
The Los Angeles Office of the Public Defender (pd.co.la.ca.us) describes public defenders as: ...
A term lawyers use to describe the courts and other bureaucracies that handle American's criminal legal business, including offices of various state and federal prosecutors and public defenders.
court operations and personnel, and also provides administrative assistance to the court of appeals, district, bankruptcy, and magistrate judges, clerks of court, pretrial services officers, probation officers, court reporters, public defenders, ...
Other committees supervise the support of specialized federal court features, such as the offices ofpublic defenders, probation officers, and magistrates (judicial officers who make decisions on pretrial matters).
bail settings, cases continued (put off) awaiting a plea, changes of pleas, setting hearing or trial dates, motions brought by attorneys, sentencing hearings, hearings to review reports from probation officers, appointing public defenders or other ...
or appointed public official, 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 ...
 See also: Office, Person, Justice, Court, State
  
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