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 ...

Lisa McLean has made new hires as she takes over the role of representing the county’s indigent criminal defendants.

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The program offers limited loan forgiveness for prosecutors, public defenders and indigent legal services lawyers. Last year, the state allocated $2.4 million for the program. Coupled with the extra ...

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 ...

He also has to pay a $1,000 fee. Hollingsworth had been waiting in a jury room at the county courthouse when an assistant public defender, Charles Argana, left his laptop unattended, according to ...

RICHMOND — A bill that would install a public defender in every judicial jurisdiction in the commonwealth but also expand the responsibility of state prosecutors advanced in a Senate committee ...

A jury in McLean County was unable to reach a verdict in a predatory criminal sexual assault case involving defendant Anthony J. Love, leading to a mistrial declaration by Judge Jason Chambers.

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 ...

Brad Little’s proposal on Monday, Jan. 6, to increase the State Public Defender’s Office’s budget. The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho has filed an emergency motion calling on the ...

Matthew Dengel, the deputy public defender representing Muller at the hearing, told Sevely “the pleas are over my advice, your honor.” Deputy District Attorney Brian King said he is “hopeful ...