Private attorneys assigned to defendants who can't afford an attorney take on about 40% of federal cases, but they stopped getting paid July 3 because of systemwide funding shortfall. Public defender ...

Private defense attorneys who represent indigent clients in federal court are not getting paid for nearly three months — until Oct. 1. The U.S. Courts announced on July 3 that federal funding for ...

With their pay shorted by Congress, federal defense lawyers edge toward a difficult decision: Do I pay my light bill, or do I ...

Nebraska's Supreme Court on Friday affirmed a lower court's order denying one of the state's most infamous killer's latest challenge to his death sentence.