CJS1002 Lecture Notes - General Counsel, United States Attorney General, Judicial Nominating Commission
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Attorneys: the solicitor general argues on behalf of the federal government in supreme court proceedings, department of justice criminal division coordinated the prosecution of all federal criminal statutes, there are 93 u. s. Attorneys they decide which criminal cases to prosecute: chief prosecutor may be called the "district attorney", the "state attorney", or the. State attorney general chief legal officer of a state. In gideon v. wainwright (1963), the supreme court ruled that the constitution requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves: assigned counsel. In small jurisdictions, the judge may assign an attorney to represent defendants who lack the financial means to hire a private attorney: contract systems, law firms bid for businesses of indigent defense work, public defender. In most large jurisdictions, a staff of full-time attorneys represent all indigent offenders.
