Meet the people behind the public defender system in New Jersey, and why it's not like what you see on TV or in movies.

Two charges filed against a Pittsfield man related to a 2024 incident have been dismissed in the Court of Common Pleas. Casey M. Skinner of Pittsfield had been charged with terroristic threats with ...

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A recent spike in citations driven by Spokane’s new homelessness laws comes at a “critical moment” when public defenders are ...

A proposed Washington court rule would cap bail for most misdemeanors and allow defendants to bypass bondsmen, raising ...

An unlikely duo in Colorado has a common goal to fix a system they say is failing victims, defendants and the public.

SAN FRANCISCO — A judge has fined San Francisco’s public defender $26,000 for ignoring a January order to stop rejecting cases — a pattern that critics say is straining the city’s justice system.

District attorneys in Massachusetts are facing competition from the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) in hiring young prosecutors, as CPCS is hiring new attorneys at a higher annual ...

A judge said the public defender could take more cases, but is choosing not to. Ahead of a Tuesday hearing, Raju rallied a ...

Advocates for CPCS staff unionization spoke in front of the Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions on Monday, March 16, 2026. For months, there’s been a shortage of attorneys needed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an interview Thursday, San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said he plans to continue to turn down some criminal cases even ...

Last month the Oregon Supreme Court issued a ruling that will have a wide impact. More than 1,400 criminal cases had to be dismissed, the justices ruled, due to lack of adequate counsel available for ...