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Section 3 of Article 27A went into effect as the first stage of law concerning the Office of the Public Defender for Maryland. It decreed that the Office of the Public Defender is part of Maryland’s Executive Branch of government, and provided that a Public Defender shall be appointed head of the Office by the Board of Trustees.
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]
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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.
Kristen M. Gibbons Feden (born January 15, 1983) is an American attorney, legal analyst, and former Assistant District Attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.She is known for her legal work in sex crimes, civil rights, and elder abuse cases. [1]
As of the 2020 United States census, the district had a population of 131,608, of whom 98,813 (75.1%) were of voting age.The racial makeup of the district was 37,297 (28.3%) White, 30,707 (23.3%) African American, 1,246 (0.9%) Native American, 24,070 (18.3%) Asian, 37 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 21,593 (16.4%) from some other race, and 16,625 (12.6%) from two or more races.
Risa Vetri Ferman was born in Philadelphia and raised in Abington Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. [4] She is the daughter of Barbara and Sal Vetri. In her early life, Ferman worked for her father's jewelry store, which operated 35 storefronts and mall kiosks across Philadelphia, Delaware and New Jersey for 30 years.