During Thursday’s hearing, Mr. Boelter’s federal public defender, Manvir Atwal, said there was little point in holding a hearing on the merits of keeping him detained pending federal trial ...

Former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, husband Mark, to lie in state with their dog, Gilbert, on Friday The Capitol rotunda will be available for the public to pay their respects from 12 p.m. to 5 ...

In a motion filed late Monday, Assistant Federal Public Defenders Steven Barth and Julie Stelzig said the government has set a July 28 deadline for them to explain why the death penalty should not ...

Soliman is represented by public defender Kathryn Herold, who requested a preliminary hearing, scheduled for July 15. U.S. Attorney Melissa Hindman is leading the federal prosecution against Soliman.

The Office of the Federal Public Defender in Little Rock, which just celebrated 30 years, is looking to the future with a ...

Call to issue an executive order echoes legislation that failed this year but raises questions about autonomy of local law ...

Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko and Ventura County Public Defender Claudia Y. Bautista write about legal rights after a federal judge's recent order.

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

Public defender Anna Schamberg alleged in the lawsuit that Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office deputies should have handcuffed and shackled her client before allowing him to meet with her in a ...

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 ...

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 ...