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Definition of Public defender
1. Noun. A lawyer who represents indigent defendants at public expense.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Defender
Literary usage of Public defender
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1919)
"In 1913, the people of Los Angeles County, California, adopted a home rule charter
which included a provision for the appointment of a public defender. ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"See Baths, Public Public buildings Legal aid and the public defender ... J Crim
Law 8:733-8 Ja '18 Necessity for public defender established by statistics. ..."
3. Justice and the Poor: A Study of the Present Denial of Justice to the Poor by Reginald Heber Smith (1919)
"The new office in criminal cases, generally called that of public defender, has
had more written about it and is more generally known than all the other ..."
4. Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California by Commonwealth Club of California (1921)
"Report on the public defender Statement by WM. H. GORRILL MR. GORRILL: Mr.
President and members of the Commonwealth Club: What I have to say will be in the ..."
5. Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1919)
"public defender. Mr. Donnelly of Lawrence presented the following ... The General
Court shall have authority to establish the office of public defender. ..."
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