Illinois lawmakers consider support for public defenders
Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure that would create a statewide office to provide public defenders with additional support.
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Illinois lawmakers are considering a measure that would create a statewide office to provide public defenders with additional support.
Migrant children face discrimination in legal servicesMigrant children who are left unaccompanied to represent themselves in court are often without an attorney and health care. When they are located...
Your honor, reputation and good name are perhaps the most valuable possessions you have. But, unlike most other possessions, they cannot be traded in or discarded when they go bad.
Marco Bello/File Photo/ReutersJudges and prosecutors seem so afraid of violating Donald Trump’s First Amendment rights that they are undermining the integrity of the criminal justice system by seeking and issuing fundamentally flawed gag orders that fail to prohibit attacks on the presiding judges and main prosecutors. For example, in the election interference case brought against Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Judge Juan Merchan issued a gag order preventing Trump from making
William Smith writes about a recent court case involving illegal immigrants possessing guns.