The Supreme Court will decide whether broad appeal-waivers in plea agreements are enforceable, even when there are potential legal or constitutional issues, like in the case of Martin Hunter, who ...

Mississippi is known as one of the worst states for public defense. In one lower court, most defendants went without any lawyer before indictment. The right to an attorney is fundamental to the U.S.

WASHINGTON (CN) — Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor split from their colleagues over criminal defendants’ rights to be present in jury proceedings, dissenting from the court’s ...

ASHEVILLE – One December morning in a Buncombe County District Courtroom, defendants appeared in front of Judge Patricia K. Young on a video screen for their first appearance. Defendants shuffled in ...