AJ 4 Lecture 18: AJ 4 - Criminal Law - 18

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 4
• Professor: Watkins

Document Summary

Indigent defendant: a defendant who lacks the funds to hire a private attorney and is therefore entitled to free counsel. Prior to 1963 assigned counsel (private) or a public defender (gov. ) was given. Recoupment: process by which the state later recovers some or all of the cost of providing free legal counsel to an indigent defendant. Divided into three: public defender systems, assigned counsel systems, and contract systems. Public defenders: 1913, law firms whose only clients are criminal offenders. Assigned council system: the use of private attorneys appointed by the court to represent people. Reimbursed by the state for any legal services: in ad hoc the presiding judge appoints attorneys and inn a coordinated an administrator oversees the appointment of counsel. Contract system a block grant is given to a lawyer or law firm to handle cases. Contract system: provision of legal services to indigent defendants by private attorneys under contract to the state or county.