Chicago Reader5d
Illinois’s public defense crisis
Plus: A proposal to ease housing banishment laws and the Army Corps drops plans for a toxic sludge dump in Calumet Harbor.
Gaston Gazette1d
Meet Chip Harrison, Gaston County's newest District Court judge
Cameron "Chip" Harrison, a Gaston County public defender, has been appointed as a District Court judge by Governor Josh Stein ...
Public defender Scott Sanders, who upended OC’s legal landscape, retires after 32 years
A passionate advocate for those accused of heinous killings, Sanders has earned praise for his methodical work to expose ...
Southern Maryland News Online5d
Governor appoints prosecutor, public defender to two Cecil County judgeships
Robert Sentman has spent his entire nine-year law career prosecuting criminal defendants as a Cecil County State’s Attorney.
The Buffalo News3d
Greenman takes Niagara County public defender job after complaints, investigation cause leadership change
The leadership change resulted from accusations that some people working in the Public Defenders Office were conducting ...
WOFL4d
Judge denies Stephan Sterns' motion to ban the press, public from his pre-trial hearings
A judge denied Stephan Sterns' motion to close ... According to official court documents, the motion was filed by a public defender representing Sterns' on Feb. 19. The motion requested that ...