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  2. Federal public defender - Wikipedia

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    The chief federal public defender is appointed to a four-year term by the United States courts of appeals of the circuit in which the defender organization is located. The United States Congress placed this appointment authority in the United States courts of appeals rather than with the United States district court in order to insulate federal public defenders from the involvement of the ...

  3. Public defender (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Federal Public Defender offices follow one of two models. The first model, the Federal Public Defender, is a federal agency which operates under the Judicial Branch of the federal government, specifically administered by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. However, they perform administrative and budgetary duties as only the ...

  4. US public defenders could lose hundreds of staff in budget ...

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    That would mean a reduction of as many as 12% of the roughly 4,100 employees of the Federal Public and Community Defenders, the office that represents indigent federal criminal defendants, who ...

  5. Public defender - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of Brazil uniquely provides for a public defenders' office (Defensoria Pública) at both state and federal levels. [7] [8] Public defense is a right to poor people, who must declare, formally, that they cannot afford regular legal aid, to benefit from public defenders' services.

  6. Oregon defendants without a lawyer must be released ... - AOL

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    Oregon’s federal public defender, Fidel Cassino-DuCloux, said Friday's decision “breathes life into the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, which have been an empty promise for too many ...

  7. President Biden nominates a Kansas public defender for ... - AOL

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    Federico joined the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the District of Kansas in Topeka in 2017 and has been a senior litigator since 2020. In just three years, ...

  8. Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The Public Defender Service (PDS) for the District of Columbia provides legal defense to individuals on a court-appointed basis for criminal (at the trial and appellate levels) and delinquency cases indigent adult and juvenile defendants/ respondents.

  9. Tom Girardi's underlings warned of likely criminal charges ...

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    A team of deputy federal public defenders have pointed to indicators that others, like the CFO, held power over money and that lawyers knew of Girardi's long-running mental decline and exploited it.