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Public defender (United States)

In the United States, a public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire an attorney. The 1963 US Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright held that the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel provision requires the government to provide legal counsel to indigent defendants in criminal cases.Different jurisdictions, however, use different approaches in providing legal counsel for criminal defendants who can't afford private attorneys. Under the federal system and most common among the states is through a publicly funded public defender office. Typically, these offices function as an agency of the federal, state or local government and, as such, these attorneys are compensated as salaried government employees. This approach provides a substantial majority of the indigent criminal defense representation in the United States. An example of this model is the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.In addition to government-based offices, there are also a smaller but significant number of not-for-profit agencies, often referred to as a ""Defender Service"" or a ""Legal Aid Society"" that provide indigent criminal defense services. These entities tend to rely heavily on indirect sources, public funding, and charitable contributions to meet their operating costs. Notable not-for-profit public defense agencies in the U.S. include Gideon's Promise and The Bronx Defenders.
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