There's a courthouse fight over a volunteer watchdog group that advocates for tougher penalties. Wisconsin State Public ...

The public defenders division is looking for a new leader. The Public Defender Services Commission, which oversees the public ...

The court ordered the public defense commission to strike a contract provision to financially punish attorneys who don't meet ...

The number of Oregonians charged with a crime who don’t have an attorney has decreased by 30%, according to the head of the Oregon Public Defense Commission. Both the United States and Oregon ...

It’s shocking that Massachusetts pays its public defenders so little and the Legislature has voted a parsimonious $20 hourly increase over two years (“State Supreme Court can stop this nonsense and ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received more than 35,000 applications since launching its Homeland Defender hiring campaign on September 30 — the highest ...

A court crisis is brewing in San Francisco. In the courtrooms of the San Francisco Hall of Justice, attorneys with the Public Defenders’ Office have been opting out of taking some new cases for the ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Maryland Office of the Public Defender has condemned a viral video showing a Baltimore Police officer attempting to strike a civilian with his patrol vehicle, calling it a ...

(TNS) — Recent cyberattacks on public defenders’ offices in multiple Western U.S. states have spotlighted the technological vulnerabilities of an often overlooked but critical part of the U.S.

The San Francisco public defender’s office has, for months, said that it does not have enough lawyers to handle the influx of criminal cases District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is prosecuting. Now, ...

Four attorneys who used to lead local public defender offices are suing the Louisiana government and the state public defender over their terminations. Trump admin weighs major change to Social ...