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public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was provided have created a need for more lawyers to represent the indigent. Proponents of the public defender office claim that it is the most efficient and effective method of protecting the indigent. Other systems include court-appointed counsel from the local bar, clinics operated by law schools, and legal aid societies. The societies are privately funded and offer civil and criminal representation.

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Biondi serves on the Los Angeles County Commission for Children and Families, Peters is assistant public defender for Los Angeles County and Rochart is executive director of New Horizons Family Center in Glendale.

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Smith's attorney, Deputy Public Defender Ralf Jacobsen, said he hadn't reviewed the case yet and that it was premature to comment.

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TORONTO -- The Ontario government's commitment to change the province's current legal aid program to a public defender system, similar to what exists in many states in the USA, has been condemned by the Law Society of Upper Canada as establishing a two-tier justice system--one for the rich and one for the poor.

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