In Alabama, for example, court-appointed lawyers make $20 an hour.
He completed law school and spent one year as a court-appointed lawyer.
They were then provided with the services of court-appointed lawyers.
The government is also blocking him from speaking with his court-appointed lawyer.
Then he noticed that six new court-appointed lawyers had appeared at the defense table.
The defendant had a court-appointed lawyer, but he presented no evidence.
"They're paid nothing," she said of the court-appointed lawyers in many state capital cases.
It was the first time the girls had met their court-appointed lawyers.
The work done by court-appointed private lawyers has frequently been criticized.
If we were going to get anything else out of him, it would have to be through his court-appointed lawyer.