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Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure that would create a statewide office to provide public defenders with additional support.

Yesterday, a Rhode Island House Committee held a hearing on a bill that would require a criminal conviction before proceeding with asset forfeiture under the state's Controlled Substance Act. However, the legislation leaves a loophole open that would allow police to continue using asset forfeiture by partnering with the feds.

The legislation would clarify that banks, credit unions, armored car services, and accounting services are not subject to prosecution under state law for simply working with legal cannabis businesses.

Does every indigent person, or those charged with a crime but unable to afford an attorney still receive effective representation? While this right to counsel is protected by the sixth and fourteenth

A felony case assigned to a lawyer who had never in his career been to court, a homicide case assigned to an estate lawyer, an environmental lawyer appointed to a human trafficking case, and an attorn

Titled “Prohibit Red Flag Gun Seizure Act,” the new law prohibits any state or local agency “from implementing or enforcing any federal statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings or any state statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings that would enforce a red flag gun seizure order against or upon a resident of Wyoming” who is legally allowed to possess a firearm under state law. It also prohibits the state and its political subdivisions ...

Law enforcement agencies lined up to oppose the measure, including the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Kansas Peace Officers Association, the Kansas Sheriffs Association, and the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police. The police lobby groups all complained that prohibiting them from helping to enforce federal gun control would jeopardize their "partnerships" with federal law enforcement.

Titled the Kansas Gun Rights Preservation Act, the bill would prohibit an agency of the state, a political subdivision of the state, and their employees from knowingly and willingly participating in any way in the enforcement of any federal act, law, executive order, administrative order, rule or regulation regarding a firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition against a law-abiding citizen.

Titled “Prohibit Red Flag Gun Seizure Act,” the proposed law prohibits any state or local agency “from implementing or enforcing any federal statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings or any state statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings that would enforce a red flag gun seizure order against or upon a resident of Wyoming.”

Mississippi is known as one of the worst states for public defense. In one lower court, most defendants went without any lawyer before indictment.