Pinal County celebrated National Public Defense Day, emphasizing the Gideon v. Wainwright decision and the importance of ...

I’m sure everyone has seen that part in a movie or television show where someone is being arrested and they are told “if you ...

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To take one example, the majority opinion in the landmark 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to a court-appointed lawyer for indigent criminal defendants ...

An Illinois House committee has approved by a 10-5 vote a measure that would create a statewide public defender’s office to ...