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BALTIMORE — Maryland courts have run out of money to pay for indigent people charged with crimes to be released on home detention pending trial, putting hundreds of such defendants at risk of reincarceration, according to documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun. In 2021, the state sent $5 million to its Administrative Office of the Courts for a program that would pay private home detention ...

He was the first chief public defender in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit.

It's clear public defenders across the nation have more clients than they can ethically represent, including in New Mexico.

The 562 lawyers taking contract cases is a decrease of almost 50 percent from the 1,100 lawyers who were taking court-appointed cases in 2014, the Iowa State Bar Association said.

High turnover rates are forcing young attorneys to "handle serious felony cases long before they are ready to do so," public defender says.