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A federal judge has ordered Oregon counties to release criminal defendants from jail if they aren’t appointed an attorney within a week of their first court appearances.

We will be virtually legislating. It will be very difficult for us to do that, says SC

On Point's Paige Sutherland reports on a Supreme Court case being heard on Nov. 7 that has the potential to grant firearms access to hundreds of thousands of domestic abusers who are currently prohibited.

The all-white judges of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal systematically ignored thousands of claims from prisoners, most of them Black, who said they had been wrongly convicted. Efforts to expose the decadelong injustice went unheard.

A federal judge said indigent defendants are essentially being locked up and deprived of a voice because they are too poor to hire their own lawyer.

PrologueTwo years into his 25-year sentence for attempted aggravated rape, Nathan Brown could tell the man sitting across from him — a jailhouse lawyer improbably named Lawyer Winfield — was not going to help him get out of prison. It was astounding to Brown that he was pinning his hopes on a fellow...

The Supreme Court on Friday (November 3) expressed its reservations about directing the union government to immediately implement before the 2024 general elections, the Constitution (One Hundred and...

Idaho judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger's university student stabbings case says he is "not going to ban cameras" from high-profile court proceedings.

Bryan Kohberger has lost his bid to ban cameras in the courtroom - but the judge issued a stern warning that he wanted more control over what is being filmed during proceedings.

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