A pending bill in Florida would pay up to $44,000 toward the law-school debt of lawyers working a set number of years as state prosecutors or public defenders.
A Pennsylvania lawyer who was decked in court by a handcuffed death-row inmate while working as a contract appellate lawyer earlier this year has sued Blair County for damages.
Saying that five men were convicted of serious crimes before a Georgia judge whose impartiality was seriously compromised, a state appellate panel has granted them new trials due to a…
A well-known Illinois lawyer who works as a public defender and opposes the death penalty, Jeanne Bishop is also a woman of faith who views the criminal justice system from…
An attorney fee backlog and public defender furloughs are likely coming to an end as a result of extra money provided in the budget deal reached on Wednesday.
An Iowa lawyer is facing felony charges after allegedly obtaining nearly $178,000 in improper payments, between 2007 and 2011, for his work as a contract attorney for the state public…
In a controversial plan, the city of Philadelphia is planning to retain a private law firm to handle all court-appointed defense work for indigent individuals at an expected savings of…
Carlos Martinez: “My hope is not just for my office,” Martinez says. “My hope is there’s been a serious shock to the system that’s been necessary for many years—that is, we need to be looking at what we’re doing in court every day.” Photo by Sonya Revell.
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An Ohio lawyer who billed for lengthy work days on court-appointed cases, including one that stretched for 29 hours, is facing a disciplinary proceeding.
An Oklahoma lawyer who mounted an unsuccessful legal challenge to the method of execution eventually used on his client in a death-penalty case is entitled to be paid for his…
The city of Durham, N.C., is probing allegations that Police Chief Jose Lopez said a lawyer injured in a shooting deserved to be shot because he is a public defender.
Faced with budget cuts that came with sequestration, a chief federal defender in Ohio decided to fire himself rather than any of the lawyers who worked for him.
A U.S. Army psychiatrist in a capital case over the 2009 shooting spree that killed 13 at Fort Hood is sabotaging his own defense in a deliberate effort to get…
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