Louisiana board votes 5-4 to uphold firing of five lead public defenders Dismissals spark legal threats and accusations of retaliation Majority of board members were recently appointed Allegations ...

A Louisiana board on Monday narrowly rejected appeals from five top parish public defenders who sought to keep their jobs after the state public defender said he would not renew their contracts. In a ...

A DC-based public defender and her Jan. 6 defendants take on America’s epidemic of division. At a critical juncture in our nation’s history, Public Defender, an award-winning documentary film, ...

Five attorneys at risk of losing their jobs running local public defender offices accused State Public Defender Rémy Starns of discriminating against women in charge of those offices. It’s the latest ...

THANK YOU. JOYCE OVERWHELMING CASELOADS AND NOT ENOUGH LAWYERS TO DEFEND PLAINTIFFS. RIGHT NOW, KENTUCKY IS STRUGGLING TO RETAIN PUBLIC DEFENDERS, AND ADVOCATES ...

URBANA — Christopher Tichenor sat at a table shuffling papers inside a courtroom in Champaign County. Over the next 90 minutes, the assistant public defender would handle case after case for ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Five attorneys who run local public defender offices in Louisiana -- including Caddo Parish -- were replaced Tuesday even as the question of whether they have been rightfully ...

An Allegheny County judge who oversees hearings on people’s competency to stand trial has barred a public defender accused of unethical behavior from practicing before her — a controversial remedy ...

The Office of the Federal Public Defender in Little Rock, which just celebrated 30 years, is looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and optimism as the offices around the nation face ...

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