It was April 2012, long past quitting time, when Orange County Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders found ... inmate “Fernando P.” Also see: Thomas Goethals, veteran judge whose rulings ...
It was the scandal that Orange County Judge Thomas Goethals didn’t want to ... applied to both the local district attorney and public defender’s offices. The Orange County district attorney ...
“The General Assembly statutes don’t allow a deputy public defender from one county to help out other counties when a conflict of interest arises. That needs to change,” Pepple sai ...
The public defender will face at least one challenger in 2026, in former U.S. Navy judge advocate and one-term senator attorney Thomas “Tom” Fisher, who announced his candidacy this past week.
On March 25, the Travis County Commissioners Court was packed, seats filled with public defenders, paralegals, social workers and a range of legal representatives and administrators. As county ...
The work cannot continue if the county’s public defenders continue to be paid less competitively than offices in other counties as well as Travis County’s own prosecutors. The county’s entry-level ...
In a request dated Feb. 10, 2025, the newspapers sought copies of timesheets submitted by attorneys working for the Niagara County Public Defender’s office between Jan. 1, 2023, and Feb. 10 ...
LOS ANGELES – A growing rift between Los Angeles County’s public defenders and the District Attorney’s Office exploded into public view this week after DA Nathan Hochman announced a return to seeking ...
Wayne County Public Defender Andy Correia noted that under the 2019 changes, felony charges must be ready for trial in six months and misdemeanor cases must be ready in three months.