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The public defender system is not the only form of indigent defense program offered in the United States. Besides the public defender system, there are two other main alternatives: assigned-counsel system and contract-service system. [3] Assigned-counsel is where the court appoints a private lawyer to defend someone who cannot afford to pay. [3]
The term public defender in the United States is often used to describe a lawyer who is appointed by a court to represent a defendant who cannot afford to hire an attorney. More correctly, a public defender is a lawyer who works for a public defender's office, a government-funded agency that provides legal representation to indigent defendants.
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Work experience: Six years as a Hamilton County Public Defender; Ohio State Representative from 2009 to 2014. She was co-chair of the Hamilton County Democratic Party for a short time in 2018.
According to the National Center for State Courts in the United States, as of 2006 pro se litigants had become more common in both state courts and federal courts. [1] Estimates of the pro se rate of family law overall averaged 67% in California, 73% in Florida's large counties, and 70% in some Wisconsin counties. [ 1 ]
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