Truly indigent parts of England receive dollops of government cash.
In this climate, writers may have to take their lead from George Gissing's indigent hero Jasper Milvain who, more than 100 years ago, declared in New Grub Street: "I am the literary man (of 1882)… I am learning my business.
In 1985, the Supreme Court said Oklahoma was constitutionally required to give funds to Glen Ake, an indigent capital defendant, to pay a psychiatric expert because Mr. Ake's mental state had been a significant factor at both his trial and sentencing hearing.
A lawyer for Mr. Rideau said that Mr. Rideau remained indigent.
Malamud's story, or fable, of Seymour Levin, an indigent English instructor from New York, "formerly a drunkard", who finds himself in exile at a "cow college" in Oregon, teaching freshmen composition, kept me spellbound.
"It makes you look more credible in front of the jury if you can say to a witness, 'Were you in front of the bodega or the hair salon?' " Last year, Ms. Tipograph represented Armando Mendez, an indigent defendant who was accused of a double murder in the Bronx.
"The Supreme Court's decision in these two cases constitute the single greatest revolution in the criminal justice process since Gideon v. Wainwright provided indigents the right to counsel," said Wesley M. Oliver, a law professor at Widener University, referring to the landmark 1963 decision.
The novel's main character, Cuthbert, is an indigent, mentally ill drug addict.
"Nobody except well-off, successful mobsters can do it," said Peter Kirchheimer, who represents indigent clients as the lawyer in charge of federal public defenders in Brooklyn.
He said, 'Not for quite a while.' " There were reports that Gray had died indigent, and in his last days had worked as a day construction laborer.
