Brazos County commissioners are told of more state grant money coming to the two year old public defenders office. A spokesman with the Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) says three grants ...

College Station city council members receive updates on its capital improvement and drainage projects. Updates in the capital ...

A Colorado public defender who says she was attacked by her client in the Arapahoe County Detention Center during a one-on-one meeting in which the client was not handcuffed or shackled sued the ...

Hall County deputies were called to the Public Defender's Office just before 9 a.m. regarding an employee who had recently died.

A refusal by state-funded public defenders to take new cases has led to many different outcomes for defendants who cannot ...

New budgets for state agencies and commissions in North Dakota went into effect July 1 and one commission will see a 20% increase over the next two years — the Commission on Legal Counsel for ...

The Commission on Judicial Performance found that Solano County Superior Court Judge Robert Bowers improperly encouraged the defendant in a homicide case to drop his public defender.

BOSTON (AP) — Defendants are being released in Massachusetts in the wake of a prolonged dispute over pay for the state’s public defenders, and one of those set free was charged with a serious ...

Over the last three years, the shortage of public defenders in Washington state has built to a crisis. It’s been taking a toll on the lawyers who represent clients that need representation but ...

Defendants including some charged with serious crimes have begun being released in Massachusetts amid a dispute over pay for the state's public defenders. The first four defendants who didn't have ...