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The state’s safety net for criminal defendants who can’t afford an attorney is no longer in crisis. Pay increases have slowed attorney resignations. Fewer people are waiting for a lawyer, and the wait ...

Four days after the state’s highest court issued an order to release unrepresented indigent defendants from jail if they’ve been in jail for at least seven days, the first defendants got their freedom ...

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Clark County is considering establishing a public defenders office rather than contracting with local attorneys to provide for indigent defense. At left, Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Tony Golik ...

Muscogee County Coroner Buddy Bryan intends to dispose of the remains of indigent citizens through his office, largely bypassing local funeral homes, and thus saving the city thousands of dollars a ...

MINOT — According to testimony delivered Monday, Jan. 13, to the Senate Appropriations Committee in Bismarck by Travis Finck, executive director of the Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents, ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Criminal defendants in Benton County district courts should have a lawyer representing them at bail hearings before a judge, a federal lawsuit contends. Not appointing a lawyer to ...