his public defenders and the government had engaged in plea negotiations for more than a year and a half. After no resolution came about, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, an appointee of ...

SPRINGFIELD — When Elisabeth Pollock took over as the Champaign County public defender in 2022, one of her team’s attorneys was handling 500 cases in a courtroom that should have been staffed ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Office of the Public Defender (OPD) is this year, celebrating 25 years of dedicated service to the people of Jamaica. Established on April 16, 2000, through the Public ...

At the end of February, State Public Defender Rémy Starns notified five of the 37 district defenders that their contracts would not be renewed. Over the last several years, oversight and ...

a coalition of public defenders has already done some of that legwork. Nearly 4,000 Oregonians are waiting for court-appointed attorneys in their legal cases, a problem that Kotek and others ...

Clark County Chief Public Defender Christopher Swaby, center, reaffirms his professional oath, along with other Clark County attorneys for National Law Day of Action on May 1. The new state budget ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The 19th JDC Office of Public Defender hopes a tax measure to fund the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney’s office will help it get money from the City-Parish.

In Washington County, Judge Rebecca Guptill told the publicly funded Metropolitan Public Defender, which operates offices in Washington and Multnomah counties, to produce detailed caseload ...

Testimony in the trial of a Black attorney suing the Arkansas Public Defender Commission over what she claims is a racially motivated pay disparity entered its second day as the commission's ...

A former El Paso County public defender accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old pleaded not guilty in the 4th Judicial District on Thursday. Thomas Cushing, 26, was arrested Nov. 22 ...