11.   Carrigan handled the appeals of about a dozen indigent defendants last year.

12.   Consistent with the Criminal Justice Act, we have provided by Rule for the payment of counsel appointed by this Court to represent certain indigent defendants.

13.   Finally, after that round of public ridicule, McCorvey appointed Melinda Ryals, who has contracted with Worth County to represent indigent defendants, to represent Cook.

14.   Federal law requires the appointment of two lawyers for an indigent defendant facing the death penalty, at least one of whom must be experienced in capital cases.

15.   For decades, the city has hired the Legal Society Society to fulfill a constitutional obligation to provide indigent defendants with lawyers.

16.   For indigent defendants, even those charged with the least serious transgressions, the stakes are growing.

17.   Giuliani has a constitutional obligation to provide lawyers for indigent defendants and, by extension, to support the quality legal work that the society has long furnished.

18.   Frazer said he essentially had no legal representation at trial and he questions whether other indigent criminal defendants with court-appointed attorneys are in the same situation.

19.   He said the law also required, for the first time, that the state pay for the appeals of indigent defendants.

20.   If he has five lawyers for himself he must hire four lawyers for indigent defendants.