We've seen across the nation how traffic stops can escalate quickly. Understanding your rights and responsibilities can help ...

More than 120 cases were dismissed in Boston as a dispute over public defender pay continues. Cases range from assault to ...

New Jersey State Police has kept a secret, unregulated DNA database since at least 2021, the public defender's office says in ...

Over 120 defendants in Boston had their charges dismissed yesterday, due to a public defender shortage from an ongoing ...

Private attorneys assigned to defendants who can't afford an attorney take on about 40% of federal cases, but they stopped getting paid July 3 because of systemwide funding shortfall. Public defender ...

When officers arrived they found the victim, a Sonoma County Public Defender, who had been struck in the face multiple times ...

Private defense attorneys who represent indigent clients in federal court are not getting paid for nearly three months — until Oct. 1. The U.S. Courts announced on July 3 that federal funding for ...

About 100 criminal cases being dismissed in Boston Municipal Court Tuesday because the defendants did not have legal ...

The victim is identified only as John Doe in the criminal complaint, and officials have not said how he and Simms know each ...

So from the day this council was sworn in to now, that’s about 700  people less every single day who are spending the night ...