A man convicted of killing a policeman has endorsed a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a letter that praises the lawyer’s work defending him 15 years ago.
The former public defender for Durham, N.C., has admitted that he sexually harassed three women who worked for him and has agreed to a five-year suspension of his law license.
Updated: A defendant who wanted his public defender removed from the case will get his wish after smearing feces on his lawyer’s face and flinging the material at jurors.
A California public defender reportedly is using a novel constitutional argument to support his contention in a state-court lawsuit that the local district attorney’s office is unfairly listening into conversations…
A lawyer for the state of Vermont told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that a ruling for the defendant in a case on speedy trial rights could lead to…
A former public defender in North Carolina who became a game developer for Microsoft’s Xbox division was shot and killed by her husband in a murder-suicide.
When his co-workers tired of hearing his views about issues related to his job and the law in general, an anonymous public defender in Connecticut found an alternative.
Latina Alston freely admits that she has made some mistakes in life, and, at not quite 30 years old, she is raising three children although she has never been married.
An unknown number of child sex-abuse convictions in Santa Clara County, Calif., could be overturned after the discovery of some 3,000 videotapes of medical exams dating back to 1991 that…
A newly elected public defender and state attorney in Florida’s Fourth Circuit in Jacksonville, Fla., have fired more than 20 lawyers in their offices, prompting threats of lawsuits.
A public defender who told a judge he thought his bail ruling was “outrageous” didn’t deserve a criminal contempt finding and $100 sanction, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
An editorial warns that public defender offices are overburdened and underfunded as a result of funding cutbacks, creating a problem that is “reaching crisis proportions.”
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