New York's Commission on Judicial Conduct investigates judges accused of misbehavior, malfeasance and occasional criminal ...

Following a complaint from a female attorney, Niagara County spent more than $23,000 to hire a private law firm to ...

Hancock County Budget, Efficiency and Revenue Committee and Hancock County Council members Tammy Settergren and Scott Wooldridge listen in during a recent hearing. GREENFIELD — Hancock County ...

Jan. 21—LOCKPORT — The Niagara County Public Defender's Office is undergoing a leadership shakeup in keeping with recommendations from a private law firm that determined the office's two top ...

A new proposal to help solve Washington’s public defender crisis is attracting bipartisan support in the Legislature but would carry a hefty price tag. Sponsored in the Senate by a diverse group ...

Lisa McLean has made new hires as she takes over the role of representing the county’s indigent criminal defendants. Flanked by her sons Jackson McLean, 23, left, and Jake McLean, 25 ...

The program offers limited loan forgiveness for prosecutors, public defenders and indigent legal services lawyers. Last year, the state allocated $2.4 million for the program. Coupled with the extra ...

The state’s leaders are overlooking our legal system’s single most important means of preventing mass deportations: public defenders. The vast majority of deportations start when a noncitizen ...

ANNAPOLIS -- The Maryland Office of the Public Defender (OPD) is demanding lawmakers to put an end to automatically charging minors as adults. As the Maryland General Assembly's 2025 legislative ...

At a bail review hearing on Friday, Jan. 24, Dillon refused to be represented by a public defender, telling the court that she would represent herself. “I’m representing myself. Y’all ...

She held positions as a law clerk for Henry F. Floyd, Public Defender in Richland County, South Carolina, attorney advisor for the U.S. Attorney’s Executive Office, District of South Carolina ...