An Illinois prosecutor was hospitalized today after an assistant public defender allegedly choked him in a court hallway in Chicago following a courtroom dispute over setting a hearing date in…
The Maryland Court of Appeals decided last month that it isn’t enough just to consider criminal defendants’ income in deciding whether they’re eligible to be represented by a public defender.
A Georgia death-row inmate whose appointed capital defense lawyers were tossed off the case due to funding problems cites a “systemic breakdown of the public defender system” in a petition…
A planned contempt hearing today for an unidentified juror accused of violating the judge’s instructions by watching a YouTube video about a reckless homicide case…
A corporate lawyer in Colorado who drove his sport-utility vehicle into a bicycling Jefferson County deputy public defender last summer has been sentenced to nine years after pleading guilty to…
Noted Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe is facing some constraints in his new, specially created job in the Obama administration as “senior counselor for access…
A California judge has ordered the San Francisco police crime lab to turn over for a relevance review some 1,100 pages of documents related to an investigation of a veteran…
A juror’s reported comment that “defense attorneys can be a––holes” is reason enough to vacate a cocaine conviction, according to a New Jersey appeals court.
A West Virginia prosecutor has been suspended for one month without pay for OK’ing a plea deal that permitted the victim to slap the defendant in exchange for dropping the…
Arrested for driving on a suspended license following a misunderstanding about whether she had to appear at a court hearing after receiving a letter reinstating her driving privileges, a 78-year-old…
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