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2014 Tennessee Code
Title 8 - Public Officers And Employees
Chapter 14 - Public Defenders
Part 2 - District Public Defenders and Investigators
§ 8-14-201 - Indigent person -- Defined.

TN Code § 8-14-201 (2014) What's This?

For the purposes of this part, an "indigent person" is one who does not possess sufficient means to pay reasonable compensation for the services of a competent attorney:

(1) In any criminal prosecution or juvenile delinquency proceeding involving a possible deprivation of liberty; or

(2) In any habeas corpus or other post-conviction proceeding.

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