A Cumberland County woman charged with murder in the ... appeared in court briefly April 17 and was appointed a public defender. Shana Cloud, 50, is charged with first-degree murder and ...

But few have followed Tennessee’s lead to focus on revoking public education from children, and none have made it out of committee. The Republican-controlled Tennessee Senate has approved a ...

Victims, and people accused of crimes, are waiting and waiting. That's because in many cases, one person needs a public defender, and those are getting harder to come by. Investigative reporter ...

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 ...

Last summer, Robert Dale Root was charged with violating a no-contact order to stay away from his partner. Unable to afford an attorney and facing a dwindling roster of Yakima County public ...

In November, a change to the Iowa Code ensured public defenders could no longer accept misdemeanor cases. Ryan Beckenbaugh (Bryan Bobb, OurQuadCities.com) The office of the state public defender ...

A defendant with no available public defender to represent them waits for their court hearing to begin at the Yakima County Jail on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Yakima, Wash. Last summer ...

MONTEREY, California — The Monterey County Sheriff's Office has identified a body found along the Pajaro River levee as 36-year-old Jesus Alfonso Duarte Figueroa of Watsonville.

At that time, Poloncarz suggested the possibility of opening a County Public Defenders Office, staffed by county employees. Poloncarz appointed a task force of legal experts, called the Indigent ...

We found that before her run for Justice of the Peace in 2016, Bachman worked for years in the Clark County Public Defender's Office. She is the second former Clark County Public Defender on the ...