Jan. 21—LOCKPORT — The Niagara County Public Defender's Office is undergoing a leadership shakeup in keeping with recommendations from a private law firm that determined the office's two top ...

RICHMOND — A bill that would install a public defender in every judicial jurisdiction ... Commonwealth’s attorney for Williamsburg and James City County since 2007. “This is an incredibly ...

The state’s leaders are overlooking our legal system’s single most important means of preventing mass deportations: public defenders. The vast majority of deportations start when a noncitizen ...

Until late 2022, Maine was the only state without any traditional public defenders in state court. For decades, the state relied only on private attorneys who volunteered to take on indigent cases.

“So much waiting,” a public defender laughed on a recent Thursday. To a spectator briefly dropping in, each day’s little losses and victories, like an overruled objection or a pretrial release, might ...

He didn’t because of the swift actions taken by attorneys at the Loudoun County Public Defender’s Office. This case is merely one of many like it handled by Public Defender Lorie O’Donnell’s team on a ...

The organization teamed up with the National Legal Aid & Defender Association to analyze two nationwide surveys of public defense attorneys and court officials. Sixty-five percent of responding ...