Public defender: Difference between revisions

A '''public defender''' is a [[lawyer]] appointed to represent people who otherwise cannot reasonably afford to hire a lawyer to [[defendant|defend themselves in a trial]]. Several countries provide people with public defenders, including the UK, Hungary and Singapore, and some states of Australia. Brazil is the only country in which an office of government-paid lawyers with the specific purpose of providing full legal assistance and representation to the [[Poverty|needy]] free of charge is established in the [[constitution of Brazil|constitution]]. The [[Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Sixth Amendment]] of the [[US Constitution]], as [[interpreted by the [[Supreme Court]], requires the US government to provide free [[legal counsel]] to indigent defendants in [[criminal law|criminal cases]], and [[Public defender (United States)|public defenders in the United States]] are lawyers employed by or under contract with county, state or federal governments.