can i get a public defender for a civil case
Public defender (United States) In US civil cases (e.g., personal injury or a landlord-tenant dispute), public defenders may be appointed in civil cases that are quasi-criminal in nature (e.g., removal of children from parents and civil commitments for alleged sexually violent predators)[29] or in highly unusual situations where the civil proceedings may be highly connected to criminal proceedings;[30] otherwise indigent litigants are referred to a legal aid office.
The Lincoln Lawyer (film) When Haller is released from the hospital, he learns that Martinez has been released, and that the District Attorney will seek the death penalty against Roulet. As Haller rides off to his next case, he is pulled over by Vogel and the biker gang, whose next case he takes pro bono due to their previous help.