Slaves. Secession, the Civil War, and the End of Slavery. When the Georgia Trustees first envisioned their colonial experiment in the early 1730s, they banned slavery in order to avoid the slave-based plantation economy that had developed in other colonies in the American South.
If the restraining order is part of the criminal case, and is being heard in conjunction with that case, the public defender can represent her on that. If the restraining order is civil in nature, which would likely be indicated by that hearing being heard in a separate courthouse, then the public defender would not be available to her.
In the United States, a public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire an attorney. The 1963 US Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright held that the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel provision requires the government to provide legal counsel to indigent defendants in criminal cases.