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Robert M. Baum, a lawyer in the federal defender division of the Legal Aid Society who is defending Mr. Pasciuto, said yesterday that prosecutors warned of the possible bail revocation after reading a review of the book in the Money & Business section of The New York Times on April 6.

Sequestration cannot do away with the right to counsel for indigent defendants, so the hundred or more defendants who ordinarily would be represented by a federal defender in new cases between now and September will likely end up with court-appointed private lawyers.

"I think you have to recognize the fact that when the government is seeking the death penalty, it has almost unlimited resources, and it would be unfair to have to defend these cases on the cheap," said Leonard F. Joy, the federal defender in New York.

"But they are necessary to avoid permanent damage to the federal defender program," he wrote.

The testimony prompted Judge David Sam to assign a federal defender to Hamson yesterday.

Leonard F. Joy, the federal defender in New York, praised Ms. White as accessible.

The federal defenders typically rotate duty in magistrate's court, where defendants often first appear, which was how Ms. Gatto received the Shahzad assignment.

Already, federal defenders said they have cut back on staff members and their workloads.

The cuts for federal defenders may actually end up costing taxpayers more.

In 1992, Clarke moved to Spokane and took over the federal defenders' office for Eastern Washington and Idaho.

The move would limit the 2014 cuts to the federal defenders program to about 10 percent, instead of 23 percent.