The National Association for Public Defense and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers urged New York Gov. Kathy Hochul not to roll back measures that promote early sharing of evidence.

Washington — Just over a year ago, federal judges, defenders and a group of lawyers who represent criminal indigent defendants gathered at the U.S. courthouse in Baltimore to hear federal Judge Myron ...

Abbott has consolidated power like none before him, at times circumventing the GOP-controlled Legislature and overriding local officials. A flurry of executive measures has solidified his base and ...

A group of prominent defense lawyers across the country have joined an effort to fix what they see as a fundamental imbalance in the federal criminal justice system: the near-total ban on pretrial ...

The U.S. federal government shutdown this week is continuing to delay payments to defense lawyers who have been waiting for months to be compensated for their work. The U.S. Courts announced on July 3 ...

Despite passing a bill to increase wages for private defense attorneys in Massachusetts, lawmakers did not sufficiently address the crisis that’s rocked the state’s court system this summer, the ...