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The Federal Defender Program, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia has selected Natasha Perdew Silas to serve as its next Executive Director.

She has spent more than a quarter-century defending indigent persons accused of federal criminal offenses as a Staff Attorney and then Senior Litigation…

Pride Month is a celebration of generations of LGBTQI+ people, who have fought bravely to live openly and authentically.

As we celebrate Pride Month, the Training Division recognizes and honors the invaluable contributions of LGBTQ+ individuals within Defender Nation. This month, and every…

A first of its kind, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin has charged a man for allegedly producing and possessing images of child pornography. The images at issue were generated entirely through artificial intelligence using the generative artificial intelligence…

Defendant: Look, sure, I was just convicted of drug trafficking, and, yes, I testified that I deposited all my legitimate income in the bank while I kept all my drug-trafficking money in cash, and, okay fine, you found a bunch of cash in my house near my drugs and my scale and my notebooks…

In three and a half years, President Biden has already installed more non-White federal judges than any president in history. His slate of judges is also majority female — another first (article available …

The United States Sentencing Commission is currently seeking comment on whether it should list certain 2024 amendments relating to acquitted conduct, firearms, and drug offenses as changes that may be applied…

Former presidential advisor Steve Bannon refused to comply with a subpoena from the January 6 House select committee, for which he was convicted of contempt of Congress. Bannon: Ah, but the statute requires "willful" disobedience. I may have disobeyed intentionally, but not willfully because my…

"The notion that '[n]o man is above the law and no man is below it' is fundamental to our democratic republic's continuing viability." So says the Eleventh Circuit as its opening statement in affirming the conviction…

Wisconsin man is convicted of murder in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Contrary to his instructions, his lawyer fails to file his appeal. Yikes! He spends the next two decades trying to get the state courts to let him get his appeal. In 2016, they finally give him the thumbs-up. Huzzah…

Baltimore County, Md. jail oversees a "work detail" program under which detainees work for various arms of the county, including the county's recycling center, where they are paid $20 per day despite regularly working nine-to-ten-hour shifts sorting recycling. Former detainee files a class…