Harris" case looks like a real case with a case name; a citation to the Federal Supplement, which is the reporter that publishes opinions from federal district courts; identification of a district ...

A recently released audit shows concerns about Allegheny County's heavy caseloads for public defenders that possibly make it difficult for effective representation.This is the first time an audit ...

A new proposal to help solve Washington’s public defender crisis is attracting bipartisan support in the Legislature but would carry a hefty price tag. Sponsored in the Senate by a diverse group ...

Hancock County Budget, Efficiency and Revenue Committee and Hancock County Council members Tammy Settergren and Scott Wooldridge listen in during a recent hearing. GREENFIELD — Hancock County ...

Unlike the vast majority of federal workers whose office leases are under review for termination, public defenders are not executive branch employees. They work for the judicial branch.

Public defender vacancies can stretch to 18-months ... they’re already high to begin with.” The federal government has given Vermont the green light to use funds from Medicaid to pay for ...

a clinical professor of law at Yale University and a former federal public defender. On top of that, it suggests that inhumane conditions in federal detention are the administration’s goal.

RICHMOND — A bill that would install a public defender in every judicial jurisdiction in the commonwealth but also expand the responsibility of state prosecutors advanced in a Senate committee ...

Federal public defenders representing him didn’t immediately return McClatchy News’ request for comment on Feb. 13. Rodriguez pleaded guilty in August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

A former federal public defender and prosecutor, he has called them “political prisoners” and offered on at least one occasion to represent them for free. Patel will almost certainly be asked ...

Johns was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Grissom’s attorneys, federal public defenders Kristi Christopher and Thomas Hird, did not dispute Grissom’s guilt, but argued that he ...

Lawal was represented in court Monday by federal public defenders Katherine Evatt and Jeremy Thompson. In addition to Daniels, assistant federal prosecutors on the case in court Monday were ...