Following a complaint from a female attorney County spent more than $23,000 to hire a private law firm to investigate the ...

David Spears received an 11-year prison sentence in 2012. He was released from prison on probation in March 2015. He now works as a secretary for the Missouri State Public Defender, ...

A recently released audit shows concerns about Allegheny County's heavy caseloads for public defenders that possibly make it ...

Several members of the Missouri House Budget Committee Thursday walked out of a hearing with the Public Defender’s Office.

Kansas is facing a crisis when it comes to defending accused criminals who cannot afford their own attorneys. A shrinking ...

Hancock County’s chief public defender is still waiting to hear from county council members about whether his department’s administrative assistants will get pay raises this year.

That means reporters must describe the exchanges themselves ... because they wanted the public to recognize the humanity and vulnerability of the people Israel had detained in the same way ...

LOCKPORT — Niagara County paid more than $20,000 to the law firm overseeing an internal review that led to replace the two top attorneys in the public defender’s office. Copies of expense ...