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The Lancaster County Public Defender’s office is applying for a newly created grant that, for the first time, provides state funding to help counties pay for legal defense of people
Roughly 60% percent of the state's 102 counties do not have a full-time public defender. That needs to change for Illinois to meet its legal obligation to provide criminal defendants with legal counsel.
Alan Dershowitz was allowed to stay in the courtroom during former President Donald Trump's hush money trial while Judge Merchan scolded witness Robert Costello.
Eminent law professor Alan Dershowitz accused the judge in the Donald Trump hush-money trial of being a thin-skinned tyrant and excoriated him for a threat that he said would deprive the former president of a fair trial.
In my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse yesterday.