"defender" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Defender Association of Philadelphia is the government-funded independent public defender office.
- Under the federal system and most common among the states is through a publicly funded public defender office.
- In addition to clerical staff, defender offices may employ investigators, social workers, and forensic experts, such as psychologists.
- Although both type of defender offices are supported by public funding, they do not take direction from the government as to the operation of the offices.
- The imbalance will worsen because defender offices all over the country are getting poorer.
- Frost was also asked to help establish other public defender offices across the country.
- Even after Knoxville's public defender office opened last year, they continued receiving assignments, for which the state pays $20 to $30 an hour.
- The rates are the lowest in the nation except for New Jersey, which has an extensive network of public defender offices.
- Defense attorneys in public defender offices often do not have sufficient time to prepare a case in detail for all of their clients.
- Even states like Illinois appoint lawyers this way when the caseload is too large for the public defender offices.
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