Until 2023, courts were following an outdated standard that seriously overestimated how many cases a public defender could handle in a year. Since new recommendations published two years ago ...

It was when his public defenders showed him that he was more than just another case to them, that Brandon Baez turned his life around. Just five years ago Baez was making yet another appearance in ...

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 ...

House Bill 2015 embeds a $100 million grant program in a broad policy bill designed to let local and tribal governments decide how best to use those dollars – even if that means not hiring a ...

Capitol Connection: Public Defenders take another crack at creating statewide office Donald Trump blasts Putin—"What the hell happened to him?" I’ve been a couples therapist for 30 years ...

A Milwaukee County judge rejected attempts by a former public defender accused of abusing his position and paying clients for sex to drop the felony charges he's facing. Judge Jeffrey Kremers on ...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A Clark County District Court judge has been removed from all of her criminal cases after a public defender accused her of suggesting the lawyer had a sexual relationship with ...

A spike in arrests in San Francisco has forced the public defender’s office to announce it won’t take on any new cases one to two days a week to give attorneys time they need to focus on ...

Six years ago, Oregon had one public defender for every 177 cases. Today, that figure has plunged to 93 cases for every lawyer and yet the number of unrepresented people accused of crimes ...