Board member Adrejia L. A. Boutté speaks during a Louisiana Public Defender Board meeting at the Capitol on Thursday, March ...

Louisiana’s 37 chief public defenders hire and manage lawyers who represent criminal defendants who cannot afford their own ...

An Illinois House committee has approved by a 10-5 vote a measure that would create a statewide public defender’s office to ...

Stephan Sterns’ public defender argues ubiquitous coverage of Madeline’s disappearance, death would taint jury pool ...

In recent months, Georgia has witnessed a significant wave of dismissals within its public sector, prompting concerns about ...

This comes just days after a ruling finding the state of Maine breached the Sixth Amendment. A new bill would allow courts to ...

Charleston SC Judge Kristi Curtis dismissed a lawsuit against The Post and Courier over the Theodore Wagner case, saying it ...

An audit by Allegheny County reveals most public defenders face excessive caseloads and a lack of resources, putting clients ...

In April, a judge ruling will allow defendants who have been held for 14 days or longer without a lawyer to be released from ...

Assembly Bill 320 prevents a court from turning away defendants from hearings solely because they weren’t wearing ...

The defendant has been selling drugs in the Tenderloin since 2016, despite three deportations back to Honduras.