public defenders

New Hampshire recently upped the amount that lawyers can get paid when they take on cases where defendants can't afford an attorney. It's one way to address the shortage of lawyers willing to accept these cases.

State officials say they’re already taking steps to address rising caseloads.

A recent order by the New Hampshire Supreme Court opens a new avenue for private attorneys to take on the cases of those who can't afford an attorney, lessening the caseload falling to already-strained public defenders.

A wave of resignations during the pandemic has placed the indigent defense system in peril, locally and nationwide.

Tobias Tarr spent the afternoon of June 17, 2017 tending to the garden at a homeless shelter in Keene.That evening, still covered in dirt, Tarr found…

Twenty-seven past presidents of the New Hampshire Bar Association are defending a judicial nominee whose confirmation failed in the Executive Council…