Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, urged a federal judge Tuesday to reject the ...

Public defenders are vowing to continue a push on Beacon Hill for better wages after Gov. Maura Healey signed off on a pay ...

CPCS employees, including public defenders and social workers, are pushing for unionization, citing pay and retention issues.

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.

The longtime lawyer has led the Northeastern Judicial Circuit's Public Defender office since its inception in 2004.

Margie Brown, charged in a fatal April U-Haul hit-and-run crash, wants to fire her attorney after a monthslong effort to have a court-appointed to her.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has approved a $20 hourly pay raise for public defenders in an effort to end their ongoing ...

Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has ...

Accomplice Ricardo Tomas Jauregui-Moreno testified in Santa Barbara County Superior Court on Monday that he heard gunshots ...