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

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

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, ...

WARNING: Details in this story might be considered graphic to some audiences. Read at your own discretion.***A former Carson ...

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 ...

Jurors heard how a knife attack on novelist Salman Rushdie unfolded in a matter of seconds at a 2022 New York talk and how ...

Nikko Fortunato Bas recently finished her first month in office as a member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors after being elected in November to the seat representing District 5, which ...

The Pinal County Public Defender's Office has reason to celebrate after two of its own, Kevin Heade and Paul Lovelis, received significant accolades at the Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice's ...

Successive days of monitoring cases in federal criminal court revealed several immigrants came to ICE attention through ...

Salman Rushdie wrote a book about being attacked while at Chautauqua Institution. On Tuesday, he recounted that day during a ...