The state’s safety net for criminal defendants who can’t afford an attorney is no longer in crisis. Pay increases have slowed attorney resignations. Fewer people are waiting for a lawyer, and the wait ...

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Clark County is considering establishing a public defenders office rather than contracting with local attorneys to provide for indigent defense. At left, Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Tony Golik ...

Four days after the state’s highest court issued an order to release unrepresented indigent defendants from jail if they’ve been in jail for at least seven days, the first defendants got their freedom ...

A Maine Superior Court Justice has rejected the settlement in a class-action lawsuit claiming Maine has failed its constitutional duty to provide legal representation to the poor, saying the proposed ...

The state is falling short of its constitutional duty to ensure all poor defendants unable to hire a lawyer get an effective legal defense, according to an assessment the state Judicial Council ...