- indigent defendant
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n.A criminal defendant who lacks the financial resources to pay for a lawyer to defend him- or herself.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
indigent defendant
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