The Georgia Public Defender Council (GPDC) honored retired Chief Justice Norman S. Fletcher during a special reception recognizing his transformative leadership and lifelong dedication to justice in ...

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 ...

Defendants including some charged with serious crimes have begun being released in Massachusetts amid a dispute over pay for the state's public defenders.

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 ...

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.