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A decade there included three years in juvenile court, where she primarily handled felony cases, and five years at the San Fernando Courthouse, where she represented indigent clients facing felony charges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

She was asked to join because of her extensive research and writing about the structure of indigent defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

When the center was founded in 1971, it mainly did legal work for clients who were indigent or had civil-liberties complaints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

He also raised funds to provide free inoculation for indigent children in Philadelphia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Civil rights groups have also developed litigation and important coalitions related to the school-to-prison pipeline, inadequate indigent defense, and juvenile justice reform, to name a few.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The family also needs to seem trapped not only as impostors but, more crucially, as indigents.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

The law allows public defenders to represent only indigents.

From Washington Times ● May 1, 2019

When it becomes apparent, with the approach of evening, that the city cannot house all its indigents, those already in the library decide to stay there overnight.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 5, 2019

Nothing fancy or pretentious at this humble site, a resting place established for city indigents in the 1870s.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2019

People swarming in, cities doubling and trebling in numbers of inhabitants, while the fiscal guardians groan over the increasing weight of improvements and the need to care for a large new spate of indigents.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck