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A 'perfect storm' of injustice sends too many people to prison. It's time for a fix.

Herald-Leader Editorial Board: Kentucky’s leaders must examine our dependence on the use of plea bargains in criminal trials. It’s making our justice system much less than just.

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New York Public Defender Resigns After Being Caught On Camera Tearing Down Posters Of Israeli War Hostages

A video of the public defender tearing down Israeli hostage posters went viral, and people were calling for her to be fired. Instead, she resigned.

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Lady of the Last Chance: Lawyer Makes Her Mark Getting Convicts off Death Row

Lady of the Last Chance: Lawyer Makes Her Mark Getting Convicts off Death Row
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Guns rights and domestic violence protections collide at US Supreme Court

When a New Orleans-based appeals court struck down a federal law aimed at protecting victims of domestic violence from firearms - a matter that the U.S. Supreme Court takes up on Tuesday - Phil Sorrells, the conservative gun-owning Tarrant County district attorney in Texas, disagreed. "When they're involved in this intimate partner violence, they don't need to have access to weapons that are going to ramp up this violence even more," Sorrells said in an interview. The law at issue makes it a crime for a person under a domestic violence restraining order to have a gun.

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Oregon told to get lawyers for criminal defendants within 7 days or release them from jail

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.

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You have the right to have an attorney. Budget cuts in Congress mean you may not get one.

Protecting the rights and freedoms of presumptively innocent people is a task that falls, overwhelmingly, on federal defenders. Don't defund justice.

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Accused Delphi killer gets new attorneys; motions to block removal pending

Suspected Delphi killer Richard Allen has new court-appointed attorneys over his objection, for the time being.

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Pay hikes of up to 44% used to recruit lawyers in Rockford area

Winnebago County has increased starting pay for prosecutors 44% since 2020. Here's why.

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How elimination of cash bail is working in Illinois after 1 month

The jail population is down in Cook County, Illinois, and pretrial detention hearings are getting longer throughout the state after a law eliminating cash bail took effect.

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Mississippi isn't following state supreme court's new rule for protecting poor defendants, critics say

Three months after Mississippi’s Supreme Court directed judges in the state to ensure that poor criminal defendants always have a lawyer as they wait to be indicted, one of those justices acknowledged that the rule isn’t being widely followed.

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