The Luzerne County Public Defender’s Office was recently invited to attend a press conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol Building on March 26 in support of more state funding for indigent defense ...

SPRINGFIELD — In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that every person has a constitutional right to free legal representation in criminal cases, including poor people who ...

nonprofit public defenders in Marion County are bracing for the likelihood that judges will begin forcing cases on them despite their assertions that they already have full caseloads. Since the ...

Unable to afford an attorney and facing a dwindling roster of Yakima County public defenders, Root waited three months for a public defender to represent him for the felony charge. His partner ...

Shannon Wilson, director of the Public Defender of Marion County, said in 2023, PMDC lost 13 attorneys in 11 months after Marion County judges began forcing appointments. Several of these ...

The story incorrectly stated it was Fulton County's Public Defender Office previously. The Source: FOX 5’s Aungelique Proctor talked to several council members or their staffers about the issue.

Workers at the Marion County Public Defender Agency are rallying Monday as part of their union’s efforts to secure a contract with city-county leadership. More than a dozen demonstrators donning ...

ANNAPOLIS — Robert Sentman has spent his entire nine-year law career prosecuting criminal defendants as a Cecil County State’s Attorney. Denise Winston has represented criminal defendants as ...