A paralegal came close to derailing San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s represention of an alleged assailant in a gang fight by secretly dating the defendant for…
A military lawyer appointed to defend an unwilling client in a terrorism trial before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has joined his client in refusing to participate in…
Federal judges around the country are speaking out against what they view as harsh mandatory and recommended sentences for child pornography crimes, spurred in recent years by Congress and public…
The Maryland Office of Public Defender has warned state judges that starting next week it will no longer pay private lawyers to represent defendants in conflict-of-interest cases.
Ruling today that the Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office is too understaffed to handle most of the felony cases it is getting, a Florida judge said 60 percent must be handled…
In an unusual situation that attracted both prosecutors and defense lawyers as courtroom spectators, veteran criminal defense lawyers in two separate cases in Baltimore were asked to explain themselves in…
Congress passed legislation last week that forgives up to $10,000 a year in student loans for state and local prosecutors and public defenders who pledge to stay on the job…
Brought down by a drug habit, according to his attorney, a former assistant Orange County public defender sat before a judge today in Santa Ana, Calif., in a jail jumpsuit…
Critics have sued the director of Georgia’s public defender system for closing an office that handles conflicts cases in the Atlanta area and hiring contract lawyers to do the work.
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