The phrase "appointed defender" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a lawyer or representative assigned to defend someone, typically in a court case.
Example: "The court has assigned an appointed defender to represent the accused during the trial."
Alternatives: "designated defender" or "court-appointed attorney".
Toubon, who served as France's justice minister before being appointed Defender of Rights, is just the latest public official to voice concern over the state of emergency.
You may be spared the death penalty if you can show a problem with your appointed defender, but it is much harder if there is merely enormous accumulated evidence that you weren't guilty in the first place and the jury got it wrong.
Mr. Ridgway's appointed public defender had made no public statement on the case by late this afternoon.
At no stage has De Klerk appointed himself "defender of the country's white males" and nowhere does he express any belief that he is "the leader of a threatened white minority", as Malala claims – once again without any evidence.
The judge called an immediate sidebar and then returned to the bench and advised Ms. Miller that she needed to either speak with a court appointed federal defender before continuing with her testimony or hire an attorney.
The magistrate judge presiding over the hearing appointed public defenders to represent them.
Public defender Claude Kelly was appointed to defend Hartshorn. .
Though De Klerk chooses to appoint himself defender of the country's white males, they need very little defending.
Judge Robert Downer denied him bail, and revealed he could not be appointed a public defender because someone in the public defender's office was directly affected by the crime.
While Mr. Patton represented Mr. Ruqai at the proceeding in Manhattan, a new lawyer is expected to be appointed because the defender's office had represented another defendant in the same indictment years ago.
A public defender appointed to represent him declined to comment.
