The ACLU of Idaho is urging the Idaho Supreme Court to step in and address what it calls a public defense crisis, alleging that the State’s recent overhaul of its public defense system is leaving indigent defendants without proper legal representation. After Idaho transitioned to a statewide public defender agency in October, mass resignations due…
As the state attempts to address a backlog of more than 40,000 cases, Covid numbers are making it difficult to resume jury trials: Read more
The criminal system can seem procedurally complex with many moving players and parts. While defense attorneys can lead someone through this system, it often takes all of a persons’ health providers, clinicians, and family or other support networks to keep a defendant’s life on track. Criminal cases can sometimes require months or even years of…
Mental health providers often have ideas and solutions for how to keep someone struggling with a mental illness out of the justice system. It can be an attorney’s job to translate a proper plan of treatment to a court so the judge may have hope that it is safe to commit someone accused of or…