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Pretrial

The votes to join the state’s largest public employee union were overwhelming

Dartigue, a 26-year public defender, will lead the state office beginning on July 1.

Public Defender

Defenders Union believes office’s frontline workers deserve a seat at the table in the selection process.

Workers from the Maryland Office of the Public Defender voted to form a union last week, joining the state’s largest public employee union, the…

Two weeks to the day after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, lawyers and other staffers from the…

Pandemic

Maryland will begin universal COVID-19 testing at its prisons and juvenile detention centers, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced Wednesday. “Our state continues…

Questions abound surrounding procedure within Maryland’s courts and correctional system since the COVID-19 pandemic ascended upon the state in early March. Two legislative committees…

Maryland’s Office of the Public Defender filed a brief with the Maryland Court of Appeals on Friday urging the immediate release of some children…