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assigned counsel

American  

noun

  1. any private lawyer designated by a city or county court to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases at public expense.


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Will Casey, spokesperson for the King County Department of Public Defense, confirmed five of those charged have been assigned counsel and was unsure about the sixth.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

The commission was assigned counsel from the state attorney general’s office and issued an interim report on its findings last year to Hogan and the leaders of the General Assembly.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2021

Two of the four suspects had not yet been assigned counsel.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2016

The others were assigned counsel by the court, which felt compelled to remind the public that the lawyers had been required to take the cases.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2014

I then called a petit jury, and assigned counsel for the prisoner.

From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Field, Stephen Johnson