A judge is fining the state for failing to treat mentally ill defendants stuck in county jails. With a court-ordered deadline ...

A CalMatters investigation finds that Californians are routinely convicted of crimes without anyone investigating the charges ...

Lawmakers voted along party lines Saturday to pass House Bill 3363, which would create the “Office of State Public Defender” ...

Cassi Wigington, who was admitted to practice law in Iowa in January 2020, has served as a public defender in Buena Vista, ...

Until 2023, courts were following an outdated standard that seriously overestimated how many cases a public defender could handle ... Before 2013, its adult trial court public defense services ...

Private lawyers with the Massachusetts bar advocate program say they will not take new court-appointed cases until they get a pay raise.

The San Francisco Public Defender says his office has stopped taking cases once a week because they're overloaded. San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju says he's concerned with a rising number ...

Nepo brat Arlo Willner, the 20-year-old offspring of late-night TV royalty, sported a nasty black eye in Manhattan court Thursday when he showed up to answer for a bar brawl that has him facing ...

In late July 2023, a group of parents, ministers and other public education supporters filed to overturn the board’s decision. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling against the funding was appealed to the ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court today handed down a 4-4 ruling in Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, affirming the Oklahoma ...

AKRON, Ohio - Akron police are searching for a man who opened fire on a Lyft driver Monday. The shooting occurred about 11:36 p.m. in the 800 block of Bisson Avenue, police said. Officers ...