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Public defender : ウィキペディア英語版 | Public defender A public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire an attorney. It is also a literal translation of the Spanish-language term ''abogado de oficio'', which usually refers to an ombudsman office; it is also the English-language title of the Jamaican ombudsman. Brazil is the only country where an office of government-paid lawyers, with the specific purpose of providing legal assistance and representation to the destitute, free of charge, is established in the Constitution. In the United States, a 1963 US Supreme Court case ''Gideon v. Wainwright'' ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights requires the government to provide free legal counsel to indigent defendants in criminal cases.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gideon v. Wainwright )〕 Many other countries provide people with public defenders. ==By country== In civil law countries, following the model from the French Napoleonic Code of criminal procedure, the courts typically appoint private attorneys at the expense of the state.
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