The Public Defender’s Office for Baltimore City and the State’s Attorney’s Office are clashing over the office’s “Do Not Call ...

LIMA — From a young age, Chief Public Defender Kenneth Sturgill knew that he wanted to be a lawyer and specifically work as a criminal prosecutor. When Sturgill was in middle school, he recalls ...

Wisconsin Public Radio A Republican lawmaker and the state public defender’s office are among those expressing dismay about ...

The San Francisco public defender’s office has, for months, said that it does not have enough lawyers to handle the influx of criminal cases District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is prosecuting. Now, ...

BOISE — Idaho State Public Defender Eric Fredericksen went before the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Wednesday warning that budget cuts could upend his office’s positive trajectory. The ...

San Francisco Superior Court is facing another backlog of criminal cases that could be dismissed, just over a year after dozens of cases had to be dismissed because they had gone past their ...

The state Public Defender Service is close to replacing former chief TaShun Bowden-Lewis, whose tempestuous term as the first Black woman to hold the position of Chief Public Defender ended with her ...