Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
Today, anyone accused of a crime who can’t afford a lawyer is entitled to one at public expense. Who invented the concept of a public defender, a salaried government attorney to defend the poor built as a mirror image of the public prosecutor, first floated as a self-taught trial lawyer in an 1893 speech at the Chicago World’s Fair?
Hint: A downtown Los Angeles courthouse now bears her name, and she was also the first woman admitted to the bar on the West Coast.
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