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The public defender crisis isn't just a Massachusetts problem
From Oregon to Massachusetts, states are struggling to maintain a roster of attorneys to take on public defense cases. The number of cases is rising while more attorneys are balking at what they say are low rates of pay to do the work.
More than 100 criminal cases in Boston, including with serious charges such as domestic violence, have been thrown out due to ...
Seeking higher pay, lawyers for indigent defendants won’t take new clients. As a result, judges must dismiss cases against ...
Over 100 criminal cases in Massachusetts have been thrown out due to an ongoing work stoppage by disgruntled lawyers who ...
Leaders on Beacon Hill also floated structural changes aimed at heading off future work stoppages like the one that has ...
The state’s public defender agency is asking a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to implement the Lavallee protocol in place for courts in Suffolk and Middlesex counties to now include ...
The House and Senate will vote on the take-it-or-leave-it proposal on Thursday after some dissatisfied attorneys quickly ...
BOSTON (AP) — Defendants are being released in Massachusetts in the wake of a prolonged dispute over pay for the state’s public defenders, and one of those set free was charged with a serious ...
Top Democrats announced a deal to increase the wages of private attorneys working the legal cases of people who are unable to ...
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