Sentence examples for indigent person from inspiring English sources

Research shows that keeping an indigent person in jail prior to their hearing not only causes personal hardship for that person (and their family), but also seriously damages their ability to fight the charges.

When asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Theodore whether he had protested at nuclear-weapons facilities in other countries, Walli said that he had not, adding, "I'm an indigent person. . . .

As a Las Vegas statute puts it, "an indigent person is a person whom a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to apply for or receive" public assistance.

As an indigent person — he had been in and out of prison during the previous dozen years, for burglary, passing bad checks, and violations of parole — Roberson had qualified for counsel paid for by the government and was appointed a new lawyer to represent him in appealing the case.

An indigent person may not have the resources to hire a lawyer, and then falls through the cracks.

He rejected the term homeless ("The definition of homeless is you're derelict and without a country. I'm in my country. Your home is your country. I'm an indigent person that lives out").

Legal aid, the professional legal assistance given, either at no charge or for a nominal sum, to indigent persons in need of such help.

Counties are required under a 1933 state law to "relieve and support all incompetent poor, indigent persons".

Under a 1930s state law, counties are required to "relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons".

Dart wants the burial policies for indigent persons changed statewide, and is supporting a bill sponsored by State Rep. William Cunningham of Chicago.

He is also a volunteer lawyer for Philadelphia's renowned Senior Law Center and Philadelphia's VIP (Volunteers for Indigent Persons) programs, and a singer-songwriter when time permits.