State funded lawyer for >1 trial?

If the state funds your lawyer and you are convicted and then you get a new trial, do you get state funds for the 2nd trial? What about appeals lawyers? Are they funded too?

Assume you’re asking about criminal cases. Yes, if you are entitled to a court appointed defense counsel, it will generally cover appeals, and retrial if ordered.

Does it cover many years of appeals such as a death penalty case? Some of those appeals go on for 10 or more years. I know in some of them they get pro bono lawyers to help out.

Different states and even different counties have a bewildering maze of laws governing this. Qualifying depends on income level, seriousness of crime, and where in the process you are.

In this state, if it is a proceeding that can put you in jail (regardless of whether you are actually sentenced to jail) or if it a proceeding that can get you from jail and out of jail, you get a lawyer at the state’s expense.

Generally, a defendant is entitled to have the state provide a lawyer only for what is called the direct appeal, the appeal that immediately follows the trial, which may take a year or two.

Following that appeal, there may be one or more rounds of “habeas corpus” proceedings, which is a further form of review that is hard to explain in one sentence but is in some ways narrower than the direct appeal and in other ways broader. On these “collateral” reviews (as opposed to the direct appeal), the defendant does not have a constitutional right to counsel. Some states may provide a state-funded lawyer for habeas corpus proceedings in that state, but this is not constitutionally required. Federal courts do not provide counsel for habeas corpus proceedings.

Huh. Ignorance fought.

This case may help, I have it in my head!

To expand on that - In the U.S. at least, if the issue to be appealed is controversial enough (and death penalty cases typically are), there are various non-profit legal defense organizations, which often count numerous legal scholars and prominent trial lawyers as members or advisers, that will be competing for the privilege of handling the appeals for free. As will multiple white shoe law firms via their pro bono practices. Resources that are available for indigent defendants for the initial trial and direct appeal, such as the public defenders office, typically don’t play much of a role, if any.