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2. Public defender (United States) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, a public defender is a lawyer appointed by the courts and provided by the state or federal governments to represent and advise those charged with a crime or crimes who cannot afford to hire a private attorney. [1] [2] [3] Public defenders are full-time attorneys employed by the state or federal governments. [1]

3. 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 ...

4. Diplomatic Security Service - Wikipedia

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   The Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) is the principal law enforcement and security agency of the United States Department of State (DOS). [1] [2] Its primary mission is to protect diplomatic assets, personnel, and information, and combat transnational crimes connected to visa and passport fraud.

5. Career US Justice Department official in charge of public ...

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on ...

6. Virginia Indigent Defense Commission - Wikipedia

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   The first chief public defender of the Staunton office, Coy M. Kiser, Jr. started the office with one investigator, a secretary, and two part-time assistant public defenders. [5] Kiser was appointed to a judgeship two years later and was replaced by William E. Bobbitt, who served in the Staunton office for over thirty years. [5]

7. Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services

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   Some attorneys are public defenders employed by the Committee itself. [2] Others are private criminal defense attorneys appointed by the courts to represent indigent defendants. [2] [3] [4] CPCS has several divisions: a Private Counsel Division, [5] a Public Defender division, [5] [6] a Youth Advocacy division, [5] [7] and a Mental Health ...