More than 120 defendants in Massachusetts have had their charges — ranging from assault to drug possession — dropped after ...

Sharone Mitchell Jr., chief public defender in Illinois' Cook County, tells “Morning in America” that blaming cashless bail ...

About 100 criminal cases being dismissed in Boston Municipal Court Tuesday because the defendants did not have legal ...

Today we’re explaining the origins of the lawyer work stoppage that has clogged up Massachusetts’ criminal justice system.

A judge in Boston is set to decide if dozens of criminal defendants in Massachusetts will walk free Tuesday after they were<a ...

The Tulsa County Juvenile Justice Center is still trying to move forward almost exactly a year after a police raid uncovered ...

The body of Melina Galanis Frattolin, 9, of Canada, was found in Ticonderoga, N.Y., on Sunday, one day after her father ...

With their pay shorted by Congress, federal defense lawyers edge toward a difficult decision: Do I pay my light bill, or do I ...

The state Supreme Court ruled an attorney was not obligated to investigate her client's immigration status after he ...

The state’s public defender agency is asking a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to implement the Lavallee protocol in place for courts in Suffolk and Middlesex counties to now include ...

Helmers and Castellano also tell us that we should not condemn a lack of progress during years of high nitrate levels. Iowans ...