Private lawyers also seized the opportunity.
Three weeks before his trial, Frampton hired private lawyers.
Ms. Seligman is one of President Clinton's private lawyers.
Microsoft has hired numerous private lawyers across Russia who represent the company in piracy cases.
The organisation is currently being all but run by its private lawyers.
Cases rejected by the council would be passed on to private lawyers.
Reducing the hourly rates private lawyers are paid, as some have proposed, would simply compound the existing problem of finding capable private lawyers who will fully defend indigent clients.
But they will make it harder to recruit able private lawyers to do indigent criminal defense work.
"I don't want to be one of those private lawyers who only make money but a government lawyer.
In some places, private lawyers are appointed by judges; elsewhere, statewide public defender networks (like Missouri's) have been created.
Private lawyers do not have to follow the same rules, so they can often gather information more quickly.
