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Meaning of "public defender" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PUBLIC DEFENDER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUBLIC DEFENDER

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Public defender is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PUBLIC DEFENDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Public defender

In the United States and Brazil, a public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire an attorney. It is also a literal translation of the Spanish-language term abogado de oficio, which usually refers to an ombudsman office, and is the English-language title of the Jamaican ombudsman. Brazil is the only country where an office of government-paid lawyers, with the specific purpose of providing legal assistance and representation to the destitute, free of charge, is established in the Constitution, although the 1963 US Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights requires the government to provide free legal counsel to indigent defendants in criminal cases.

Definition of public defender in the English dictionary

The definition of public defender in the dictionary is a lawyer engaged at public expense to represent indigent defendants.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUBLIC DEFENDER

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public company
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public corporation
public debt
public domain
public enemy
public enemy number one
public enquiry
public enterprise
public examination
public expenditure
public footpath
public gallery
public goods

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUBLIC DEFENDER

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Synonyms and antonyms of public defender in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «public defender» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PUBLIC DEFENDER

Find out the translation of public defender to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of public defender from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «public defender» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

公设辩护人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

defensor público
570 millions of speakers

English

public defender
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जनता के रक्षक
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

المحامي العام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

общественный защитник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

defensor público
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পাবলিক ডিফেন্ডার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

défenseur public
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pertahanan awam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pflichtverteidiger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

公選弁護人
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

국선 변호사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bèk umum
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

luật sư công
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொது பாதுகாப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सार्वजनिक डिफेन्डर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kamu savuncusu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

difensore pubblico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

publiczny obrońca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

громадський захисник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

avocat din oficiu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δημόσιο υπερασπιστή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

openbare verdediger
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

offentlig försvarare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

offentlig forsvarer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of public defender

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUBLIC DEFENDER»

The term «public defender» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.750 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PUBLIC DEFENDER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about public defender

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUBLIC DEFENDER»

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Defending the Damned: Inside a Dark Corner of the Criminal ...
A member of Chicago's elite Murder Task Force unit describes the lives of its public defenders, many of whom juggle dozens of clients and death-row cases simultaneously, in a sobering account that focuses on the dramatic trial of an accused ...
Kevin Davis, 2008
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Public Defender Offices, 2007: Statistical Tables
Revised 6/17/2010 • More than 15,000 full-time equivalent litigating attorneys were employed by public defender offices in 2007. State-based public defender programs employed more than 4,000 full-time equivalent litigating attorneys, with a ...
Lynn Langton, 2011
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ABA Journal
The Public Defender: A Progressive Step Towards Justice by Cornelius J. Harrington and Gerald W. Getty □ This article by the Chief Justice of the Criminal Court of Cook County (Illinois) and the Public Defender of Cook County is an answer ...
4
Marijuana Law
In such cases, if the defendant could receive imprisonment as a punishment, the government will provide the defendant with a public defender or a court- appointed attorney. Public defenders often get a bad rap. Many people believe they are ...
Richard Glen Boire, Boire, 1996
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The Best 109 Internships
Mark Oldman, Samer Hamadeh. PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICE FOR D.C Interns are taken on a series of tours that would. H low would you like to enter a world where chalk wasn't used to write incomprehensible calculus equations but to ...
Mark Oldman, Samer Hamadeh, 2003
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The Ombudsman, Good Governance, and the International Human ...
or is likely to suffer an infringement of constitutional rights as a result of any action taken by the public authorities to complain to the Public Defender.276 The Public Defender conducts an investigation and if an injustice or a constitutional ...
Linda C. Reif, 2004
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Evaluation of the Public Defender Service in England and Wales
Lee Bridges, Great Britain: Legal Services Commission. SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CLIENTS In this section we look at comparative demographic and socio-economic data on the clients of private practice and the PDS, and then examine ...
Lee Bridges, Great Britain: Legal Services Commission, 2007
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Human Rights Commissions and Ombudsman Offices: National ...
The Office of the Public Defender has administrative and budget autonomy. Article 2 The Public Defender is elected by the Chamber of Representatives from among a trio proposed by the President of the Republic, for a period of four years,  ...
Kamal Hossain, 2000
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Second Chances in the Criminal Justice System: Alternatives ...
The views of Mssrs. Ozanne and Burnett reflect the concern of many within the defense bar who argue that if a public defender office elevates social work and community-outreach practice institutionally, it risks professional imbalance, with its ...
‎2007
10
Betrayal of Due Process: A Comparative Assessment of Plea ...
VIEWS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER The public defender is a counterpart of the prosecutor. He or she is a government official but, instead of representing the people, the public defender represents the  ...
Hedieh Nasheri, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUBLIC DEFENDER»

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ACLU lawsuit says Fresno County public defense is inadequate
Scott Baly, a Fresno County public defender, consults with his client, Tyrone Cowan, before court opens session in his Fresno County Superior Court case two ... «Fresno Bee, Jul 15»
2
ACLU sues Idaho over public defense system
BOISE -- Is the public defender system in the state broken? That's what a lawsuit filed Wednesday morning claims. But, a former attorney general says a lawsuit ... «KTVB, Jun 15»
3
Florida: Judge Faces Suspension Over Threat to Public Defender
He is accused of hitting a former assistant public defender, Andrew Weinstock, outside a courtroom last June after they exchanged words over whether Mr. «New York Times, May 15»
4
Parents of Lake City toddler found dead in car identified as assistant …
The parents of a 16-month-old child found dead Tuesday afternoon after she was left in a car in Lake City are an assistant state attorney and a public defender in ... «Florida Times-Union, May 15»
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Public defender: San Francisco jail inmates forced to fight
Public defender Jeff Adachi, an elected official, said that over the past few weeks at least four deputies at San Francisco County Jail threatened inmates with ... «Yahoo News UK, Mar 15»
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Suspect in SF Body Parts Case Dead: Public Defender
Mark Andrus, the 59-year-old man arrested and later released on suspicion of murder in the grisly case of a dismembered body found in a suitcase in San ... «NBC Bay Area, Feb 15»
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SF Police Chief: Arrested Public Defender Won't Be Charged
Police won't seek criminal charges against a San Francisco deputy public defender ... Police arrested Deputy Public Defender Jami Tillotson on suspicion of ... «KQED, Feb 15»
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SF public defender detained outside court; office outraged
A San Francisco deputy public defender was handcuffed and arrested at the Hall of Justice after she objected to city police officers questioning her client outside ... «SFGate, Jan 15»
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Public defender arrested on charges he gave inaccurate information …
An Allegheny County public defender was arrested Monday on charges that he gave inaccurate information to a judge's staff about whether his client had ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Jan 15»
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Public defender attacked by detainee at Cook County Jail, sheriff says
Jimmie Smith, 39, who is housed at Division 9 of the jail, attacked one of his two public defenders as they concluded a visit with their client Wednesday afternoon ... «WLS-TV, Dec 14»

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