31.   The campaign also helped shed light on what many attorney groups say is a sometimes haphazard approach to appointing lawyers to represent indigent defendants.

32.   The court held that states must provide attorneys to indigent defendants charged with serious offenses.

33.   The competency of lawyers who represents indigent defendants in capital cases in Texas has become a political issue this year.

34.   The concept was to give some indigent defendants the kind of legal help that the more affluent can buy.

35.   The city has steadily reduced its contributions to the Legal Aid Society, the main nonprofit agency providing representation for indigent defendants, even as caseloads have grown.

36.   The Gideon case, which established the right to appointed counsel for indigent defendants in state court, concerned a felony.

37.   The Houston lawmaker is a longtime critic of the Texas criminal justice system, especially its procedures for providing attorneys for indigent defendants.

38.   The Legal Aid Society, a nonprofit organization working under a contract with the city, would represent nearly all other indigent defendants.

39.   The new law says the state must give each indigent defendant two trial lawyers.

40.   The one floated last week by felony judges allows each court to choose one of a handful of ways to appoint attorneys for indigent defendants.