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public defender
noun
- a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
public defender
noun
- (in the US) a lawyer engaged at public expense to represent indigent defendants
public defender
- An attorney who is appointed and paid by a court to defend poor persons who cannot afford a lawyer.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of public defender1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
And, as any good public defender would, Wolf says the allegations are absurd.
From The Daily Beast
He talked to his family using the cell phone of his public defender, David Patton, says the family contact.
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Suddenly the public defender told me I could leave, as she pulled the young man aside.
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The American Bar Association recommends that a public defender not take on more than 150 felony cases each year.
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Between 2011 and earlier this year, Miami public defender Josh Cooley represented one of two brothers who are sovereigns.
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Revering the eloquence and influence of Petrarch, he importuned him to be his public defender.
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