Earlier in July, the U.S. Judiciary ran out of funds to pay private defense attorneys who augment the Office of the Public ...

The Office of the Federal Public Defender in Little Rock, which just celebrated 30 years, is looking to the future with a ...

One thing the public can do is petition leadership to investigate the $35,000 given by the FBI to a lawmaker during a federal ...

When officers arrived they found the victim, a Sonoma County Public Defender, who had been struck in the face multiple times ...

“It’s a crisis,” Southern District of California Chief U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant said Friday. “We’ve weathered ...

Leon Simms was booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of robbery, attempted kidnapping and battery in the attack on his former public defender.

MIDDLEBURG — Snyder County Chief Public Defender Jasmin Smith always intended to live in a “quiet” area as she pursued a career near her hometown of Philadelphia, never considering she’d work in one ...

Nelson Estess commended Pike County supervisors for giving their public defenders a $5,000 raise last year. But he said ...

A public defender was seriously injured after being attacked outside the Sonoma County Courthouse by a former client on ...

The Legal Aid Society voted to authorize a strike earlier this summer, as its attorneys fight for higher pay and better work ...

Citing a staffing shortage, Attorney General James Uthmeier is seeking a new way for out-of-state government lawyers to ...

Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko and Ventura County Public Defender Claudia Y. Bautista write about legal rights after a federal judge's recent order.