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Your phone’s data could place you at a crime scene — and N.J. courts just allowed it.
Your phone’s location data could now be used to place you at a crime scene — and a New Jersey court just said that’s ...
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NJ parents charged with murder of 3-month-old daughter who died from head injuries
Both Gibson and Santiago are represented by the public defender’s office. Hearings set for May 13 to determine if the parents should be released or remain in jail until trial.
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Overloaded SF Public Defender limits amount of new cases taken due to lack of funding
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A move is underway in the San Francisco Public Defender's office. Public Defender Mano Raju said his office is scaling back by not taking on new cases one or two days each week.
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Chief Defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, Keisha Hudson, Will Address Drexel Kline School of Law Graduates at Commencement
Hudson addressed systemic issues regarding policing, pretrial detention, sentencing and probation in Montgomery County in her role at the Montgomery County Office of the Public Defender, where her ...
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Former public defender accused of paying clients for sex loses fight to drop felony counts
Havas said Schwantes' relationship with the public defender's office could be impacted by sitting judges when recusing herself and others. Kremers is serving as a reserve judge. Schwantes' next ...
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She Beheaded Her Lover, Then Attacked Her Lawyers in Court — Now, Public Defender's Office Has Backed Out of Case
Taylor Schabusiness is now left without an attorney to appeal her murder conviction, and had already missed a crucial deadline CourtTV Taylor Schabusiness is currently serving a life sentence for ...
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Public defender tapped for defense in author's slaying
Nicholas J. Reppucci, of the Office of the Public Defender has been appointed to represent the 38-year-old woman charged in the slaying of Albemarle author and arts provocateur Matthew Farrell.
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The S.F. Public Defender is so overwhelmed with cases it had to stop taking them. Here’s what’s going on
The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office is so overloaded with cases that, one day a week, it won’t accept any new ones. “Right now we’re in a position where we just can’t take any ...
Capital Gazette23d
Seven indicted in ‘bank jugging’ scheme targeting customers across Maryland
Hill is represented by a public defender in Charles County for an offense that took place two months after the alleged robberies, according to the Maryland Judiciary. The Office of the Public ...
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Man charged in Gainesville Walmart shooting no longer represented by public defender’s office
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The public defender’s office will no longer represent the man charged in the shooting at a Gainesville Walmart two weeks ago. Court records show Drevon Parker ...
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Wig-wearing Fluvanna man accused of trying to sell stolen tractor
Court records indicate that he is being represented by the Office of the Public Defender. His next court date on the tractor charges is slated for June 5 in Albemarle County General District Court.