Immigrants deserve their fair day in court, with an attorney by their side. The Fairness to Freedom Act would secure this ...

Pinal County celebrated National Public Defense Day, emphasizing the Gideon v. Wainwright decision and the importance of ...

On March 25, the Travis County Commissioners Court was packed, seats filled with public defenders, paralegals, social workers ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

I’m sure everyone has seen that part in a movie or television show where someone is being arrested and they are told “if you ...

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To take one example, the majority opinion in the landmark 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which established the right to a court-appointed lawyer for indigent criminal defendants ...

An Illinois House committee has approved by a 10-5 vote a measure that would create a statewide public defender’s office to ...

Arizona, 1966), denying defendants the right to free legal counsel (Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963). Perhaps what’s most infuriating about Wednesday’s committee hearing is that the 13 Republican ...