Two Pinal County public defenders, Kevin Heade and Paul Lovelis, received prestigious awards for their work in indigent ...

"I find that alarming," a state lawmaker says about 85% of a state legal defense fund going to assist people arrested under ...

The most common criminal charge filed against a defendant in Maine courts may not even be for a crime. If someone out on bail ...

But similarly situated U.S. citizens in some Texas counties are falling through the cracks, especially in rural communities, the director of Texas Indigent Defense Commission told the state Senate ...

A man who killed five of his Cleveland, Texas neighbors, including a 9-year-old boy, and led authorities on a days-long ...

Gov. Janet Mills made history in 2022 when she signed a bill authorizing the state to hire its first set of public defenders. Mills said in a speech Tuesday that she has helped quadruple the state's ...

A June 2024 report by Texas A&M University’s Public Policy Research Institute in partnership with the Texas Indigent Defense Commission shows the number of attorneys taking at least one indigent ...

MINOT — According to testimony delivered Monday, Jan. 13, to the Senate Appropriations Committee in Bismarck by Travis Finck, executive director of the Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents ...

The state Supreme Court’s rulemaking committee has adopted changes to how court transcriptions are prepared. A proposal last year mandated audio recordings in courtrooms next year, potentially paving ...

The North Dakota Supreme Court's rulemaking committee voted unanimously last week to adopt changes to how court transcriptions are prepared.