Sitting at a table beneath Travis County’s commissioners, Robert Saulter explained to the five elected leaders how he views his job as an attorney in the county’s public defender’s office ...

The Fulton County Public Defender says his office has a staffing shortage. Chief Public Defender Kenneth Day says his department can barely keep up with the criminal caseload, which makes ...

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 ...

The last time judges in Marion County tried to force public defenders to take on new clients, more than half of the public defense staff quit and the issue landed at the state’s highest court.

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 ...

Stacey Lowe, Joel Wirtz and Clint Oborn For The Oregonian/OregonLive Lowe is executive director of Southwestern Oregon Public Defender Services ... or pay for at the county level.

(KOIN) — For years, Oregon has struggled with a public defender shortage, which experts say is the root cause of issues like delayed trials and overcrowded jails. Multnomah County’s jails are ...

Santa Clara County public defender Sajid Khan is running to become the county’s next district attorney. Courtesy Sajid Khan. Sajid Khan, a Santa Clara County deputy public defender and criminal ...

Thirty Los Angeles County detention officers face felony charges — including child endangerment, abuse and battery — stemming from accusations that they allowed youths in juvenile hall to ...

Thirty officers from the Los Angeles County Probation Department have been indicted on criminal charges after an investigation into allegations they allowed — and in some cases encouraged ...