He hadn't heard the term since leaving the public defender's office.

At one point she even told me to bring on the public defender.

The public defender said he'd be here first thing this morning.

He was a public defender before going into private practice from 1969 to 1982.

She then worked for nearly a decade as a public defender in Chicago.

His public defender did not return a call for comment.

My first year out of law school I got a job in the public defender's office.

He is a lawyer who used to work as a public defender.

"Start talking or I'll give you up to the public defender."

Each is equal in the eyes of the public defender.

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.