successful public defender in the nation in terms of helping high-profile clients avoid the death penalty. she is judy clark and has handled several high protile death penalty casesment automatic of her clines received life sentences, including the arizona shooter, loughner, ted kaczynski, and susan smith who drowned her two children in south carolina. a public defender means the public will pay for his defense and many have found our they have been supporting the family for years for a total of roughly $100,000. dzhokar and his brother tamerlan did not directly received benefits but their parents did for years, and that means the suspected bombers indirectly received benefits as well, from 2002 to 2004, and again from 2009 through 2011, and tamerlan received benefits through his wife, katherine russell, in cash and food stamps, from september