"I strongly urge the bar advocates to get back to work,” state Senate President Karen E. Spilka, D-Middlesex/Norfolk, said.

In a 5–2 decision, the state’s highest court overturned a lower court ruling that found a public defender provided ...

An attorney has been appointed by the state’s public defender’s office to represent an Anderson man charged with murder. Last month Madison Circuit Court Division 1 Judge Angela Warner-Sims said there ...

The Office of the Federal Public Defender in Little Rock, which just celebrated 30 years, is looking to the future with a ...

Issues with fully funding the U.S. Judiciary have given rise to concerns that some private attorneys who represent indigent ...

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

Leon Simms was booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of robbery, attempted kidnapping and battery in the attack on his ...

Konrad Moore, who held the top position at the Kern County Public Defender’s Office from 2013 until his retirement in 2017, ...

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

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 ...

FOX 13's Linda Hurtado talked with this year's recipients -- former public defender Julianne Holt and former Tampa Bay ...

I spent nearly 15 years as a public defender, representing hundreds of people – almost all of whom were Black or brown – criminalized and prosecuted by our legal system.