Joining in a call by private defense lawyers representing Zhenli Ye Gon to dismiss the federal drug conspiracy indictment against him with prejudice, two Washington, D.C., public defender agencies say…
For years, the state attorney general’s office in Virginia has distributed letters to former jurors in capital cases, cautioning them against talking to defense lawyers working on appeals.
When Claudia Trupp had a cancer scare, the New York appellate public defender decided to author a book. Written between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m.. for six months, as her…
Cash-strapped courts throughout the country could save a significant amount of money if they simply stopped prosecuting nonviolent misdemeanor cases, a study by a national defense counsel group suggests in…
A presenter at a 2007 continuing legal education course on sentencing issues in Milwaukee did indeed have a certain amount of criminal experience. But it wasn’t the criminal experience claimed…
The Minnesota defendant accused of decking his public defender in court before a bail hearing is now being held on $100,000 bond and awaiting appointment of a new lawyer.
A Minnesota public defender was taken to the hospital after her 18-year-old client hit her in the face while they were waiting in court for a bail hearing.
A provision in New York’s $131 billion state budget bill passed last week calls for a cap on the number of criminal cases each New York City court-appointed lawyer can…
Earlier in the week, it was looking as if a yet another lawyer would bow out of a court appointment to represent the sole surviving gunman suspected of participating last…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an inmate convicted of murder who claims his lawyer provided ineffective assistance of counsel by advising him to withdraw an insanity plea.
In a case that has made international headlines, a legal aid lawyer in New York used a cop’s Internet information to defeat a criminal case against his client.
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