41.   The agency subsumed the existing office of Public Defender, which represented poor defendants in criminal trials.

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

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

44.   The lawyers representing the defendants will likely argue those suing are allowing greed to cloud their judgment in this unforeseeable tragedy.

45.   The other two defendants are represented by separate lawyers.

46.   The national guidelines call for at least two qualified lawyers to represent each defendant in a capital case.

47.   The regulations will govern which lawyers might represent the defendants, how the lawyers might be selected and under what rules they might conduct a defense.

48.   They say lower fees might prevent the best lawyers from representing capital defendants.

49.   This procedure cannot begin, an official added, until the defendant is represented by a lawyer.

50.   Too often, proponents of the resolution maintained, death penalty defendants are represented by attorneys with inadequate experience or resources in trying capital cases.