Commissioners voted 3-0 on Wednesday to approve a 2025-26 contract with the Ohio Public Defender’s Office that will cost $478,844 over the next year. “It is a decrease of what the county will ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Office of the Public Defender (OPD) is this year, celebrating 25 years of dedicated service to the people of Jamaica. Established on April 16, 2000, through the Public ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — In the realm of legal representation, the choice between a public defender and a hired lawyer can significantly impact the outcome of a criminal case. Public ...

The order is the latest salvo from the Oregon bench as the state continues to struggle to ensure people accused of crimes have attorneys.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — When Elisabeth Pollock took over as the Champaign County public defender in 2022, one of her team’s attorneys was handling 500 cases by herself in a courtroom that should ...

Judge Rebecca Guptill told the publicly funded Metropolitan Public Defender, which operates offices in Washington ... Washington County District Attorney Kevin Barton and Multnomah County District ...

If you’re accused of a crime, having the right to an attorney - regardless of ability to pay - is one of your fundamental constitutional due process rights in the U.S. At least in theory.

Washington will more than double the money it sends to counties for public defenders in an attempt to reduce strain on the legal system, state lawmakers decided in the two-year budget they passed ...

a coalition of public defenders has already done some of that legwork. Nearly 4,000 Oregonians are waiting for court-appointed attorneys in their legal cases, a problem that Kotek and others ...