The Louisiana Public Defender Oversight Board voted 5-4 Monday to uphold the ouster of five attorneys who lead local public defender offices. The decision follows the replacement of more than half of ...

N EW ORLEANS (WVUE) - People accused of federal crimes who cannot afford legal representation are typically assigned counsel through the federal indigent defender program. But according to a notice ...

Here's an inside look at the unit that closed more homicide cases last year than in any other year in the last decade.

Lurline LaBeaud-Duncan waited more than five agonizing years for justice after the murder of her son, Gregory Heisser III, ...

A group of private lawyers work public defense cases at the request of the public defender's office. The program that funds ...

Antoine Massey, a serial escapee who vanished from a New Orleans jail with nine other inmates just after midnight on May 16, has been apprehended in New Orleans, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office ...

Trump is charging immigrants under a WWII-era law. It triggered a legal showdown in Louisiana. The charges filed in New Orleans federal court represent Trump’s latest push to target illegal ...

With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her first public appearance since the Supreme Court sharply limited the ability of federal ...

Four candidates, including two military attorneys, a veteran city court prosecutor and a grizzled defense lawyer have ...