Travis Schwantes, a former public defender, pleaded guilty to one felony and two misdemeanors as part of an investigation ...

A former public defender charged in a prostitution ring entered a guilty plea in a prostitution ring ...

The Bronx DA’s office has dropped all charges against a Queens public defender arrested on Rikers Island for possession of ...

The San Francisco Public Defender's Office is criticizing the District Attorney for overzealous and wasteful prosecutions of ...

Four days after the state’s highest court issued an order to release unrepresented indigent defendants from jail if they’ve ...

Several criminal defendants have been released so far, as public defenders continue to decline cases in Massachusetts due ...

The Louisiana Public Defender Board sided on a 5-4 vote with Chief Public Defender Remy Starns, who decided not to renew the ...

The ripple effects of an ongoing public defender work stoppage were seen Wednesday as more and more criminal defendants were ...

The Queens public defender arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle THC-laced papers to a Rikers Island inmate has been ...

A man was arrested in connection to a fire that destroyed the Walker County Public Defender’s Office in Jasper over the ...

In 2013, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that public defender's offices can apply to turn down future appointments when their caseloads rise so high that they cannot constitutionally represent all ...

Jay Dixon, the Louisiana State Public Defender, used this protocol when he was Calcasieu Parish's public defender. In 2012, his budget was so tight he knew he would have to lay off attorneys.