San Diego County has agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a lawsuit from a former public defender who alleged she was forced to resign under duress as a lawyer at the Office of the Public Defender because ...

An oversight commission was set to discuss Tuesday whether to fire Connecticut's top public defender for alleged misconduct, but said a decision won't be announced until next month. Chief Public ...

Former prison inmates and their supporters packed a meeting of the commission that oversees the state public defender service to express support, in often stark terms, for Daryl McGraw, the diversity ...