The U.S. Supreme Court granted two stays of execution involving Texas cases this week, the most recent one involving an Army recruiter convicted of raping and murdering a woman he…
Two West Virginia lawyers have been federally charged with wire fraud in unrelated cases concerning their alleged overbilling as court-appointed public defenders.
Jeremy Vickers, 36, allegedly billed for work days…
Asked by a court employee about her job and living situation, a 28-year-old woman facing a Washington state methamphetamine possession charge truthfully replied that she is unemployed and resides with…
The lawyer representing a defendant set to go on trial in September for a Connecticut triple murder is displaying the aggressive tactics that earned the one-time prosecutor a reputation as…
Lawyers for the man accused of killing a federal judge in an Arizona shooting spree are apparently trying to show that mental illness runs in the suspect’s family.
A former municipal court judge who resigned after being accused of sexually harassing a female public defender who had recently graduated from law school, as well as other attorneys who…
A former assistant Los Angeles public defender who was criminally convicted in 1998 of sex offenses concerning a 16-year-old he met when she was a client of the PD’s office,…
May a lawyer represent a man accused of killing the lawyer’s client? Recent news stories detail ethics questions surrounding the arrangement in two separate prosecutions.
James “Whitey” Bulger, the 81-year-old fugitive and alleged killer recently captured by the FBI, was expected to ask for a court-appointed lawyer today, despite reports that $820,000 in cash was…
Three inmates have filed a class action suit against two cities in Washington state, contending that excessive public defender caseloads in municipal court have deprived them and other defendants of…
Corrected: A New Mexico judge who was open to the possibility of romantic relationship with an assistant public defender to whom he gave a gag sex-book gift during a take-out…
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal that involves claims of ineffective assistance of counsel at both the trial and habeas levels.
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