Sentence examples for defender system from inspiring English sources

The dramatic cutback with which Anderson and others have to contend in the wake of sequestration won't leave indigent defendants without legal representation -- the federal public defender system, which provides legal representation to such defendants accused of felonies, will go on.

Justice Ginsburg left the door open, though, to a challenge where the delay was caused by "a systemic breakdown in the public defender system".

Last year, in Vermont v. Brillon, the United States Supreme Court left open the question of what should happen when there is "a systemic breakdown in the public defender system".

It names as defendants two leaders of Georgia's public defender system.

The public defender system has been unable to provide lawyers to poor defendants, and public transportation is essentially broke and is providing far fewer rides.

Two years ago, the creation of the capital defender office was considered a remarkable turnaround for a state with a widely criticized public defender system that was chronically short of money and repeatedly found negligent in defending death penalty cases.

With more than 80 percent of defendants facing criminal charges unable to afford to pay for lawyers, public defender systems have come to define most criminal justice systems in the United States.

Only 24 states have statewide public defender systems.

But our nation's public defender systems have long been plagued by underfunding and excessive caseloads.

Gideon prompted the widespread creation of public defender systems on which so many rely.

This group bears the brunt of our public defender systems' underfunding and overwork.