Sentence examples for defenders system from inspiring English sources
State officials say the defenders system, with its 570 employees, is expected to receive more than $34 million this year.
Largely out of the public view, defenders and judges say, the federal public defenders system is buckling under the effects of the $85 billion across-the-board cuts known as the sequester, threatening the integrity of the criminal justice system, which guarantees the right to a court-appointed lawyer for those who cannot afford one.
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.
After months of intense national scrutiny of its treatment of criminal defendants, Texas is moving closer to creating its first statewide public-defender system.
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.
Moreover, drug defendants are often poor and unsophisticated, and rely on a heavily burdened public-defender system in which the job is more about "putting out fires" than delving intensely into the legal issues.
Texas has no public defender system.
