11.   Most states underfund public defenders and judges appoint defense lawyers with little or no criminal trial experience.

12.   Most people accused of murder get a lawyer appointed by the court.

13.   President Clinton has appointed three lawyers from the firm to the federal bench in Florida.

14.   Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., recently introduced legislation that set national standards to ensure that competent lawyers are appointed for capital defendants.

15.   Should new lawyers be appointed, as is expected, they will be picked by the Defender Services Division of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in Washington.

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

17.   The defense lawyers were appointed by Magistrate Ronald L. Howland under a federal law that requires at least two lawyers for a defendant in a capital case.

18.   The inmate will be forced to ask the judge for help and if any lawyer is appointed to him, that lawyer must catch up in a short time.

19.   The most nettlesome provision, however, concerns the method of appointing the lawyers.

20.   They also asked the court to appoint a lawyer for them.