Former Montana State Chief ... Duke, former head of the Public Defender's Region 9 office based in Billings, who held that position for almost eight years. The state office also will not comment ...

HELENA – The Helena justice court on Friday rejected a request by the overloaded state public defender’s office ... in 2012 to its 10 attorneys in a region that covers Lewis and Clark ...

BILLINGS -- The Montana Office ... of the Region 9 Deputy Chief Public Defender came at a busy time for Yellowstone County, which handles the largest case load in the state. In addition, the ...

Former Montana State Chief ... Duke, former head of the Public Defender's Region 9 office based in Billings, who held that position for almost eight years. The state office also will not comment ...

The Governor’s Office backs the state public defenders office request for a $19 million budget increase, a 24% leap. That could add 20 attorneys, but would still leave the agenc ...

Screenshot via Trust Lands Public Access Map A new map that identifies every state-owned parcel in Montana confirms that nearly a third of the state’s school-trust lands are inaccessible to public ...

The top official in the Montana Office of the State Public Defender will retire at the end of June, as the legal fight over the agency's recent delays in assigning counsel to defendants continues ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — An official with the Montana public defender's office says a new state law has helped reduce his agency's total caseload by 5 percent. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A Yellowstone County District Court judge ordered the director of the Office of State Public Defender be held in contempt of court. The decision means Rhonda Lindquist has 30 ...

Montana Chief Public Defender Randi Hood eliminated the top two positions in all of the state's public defenders' offices as part of a new statewide public defense system. "There is no place in ...

The Office of the State Public Defender will ... we are taking substantive steps to improve the public defense system in Montana. Our goal is to make public defender compensation more in ...