In Louisiana, an 11-member board oversees the public defense system, allocating funds to various districts, selecting chief public defenders and bankrolling capital defense. State lawmakers formed the ...

LSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin has officially wrapped up his first week on the job as the new shot-caller in Baton Rouge ...

A 4-year-old lawsuit that claims Louisiana's struggling public defense system does not provide adequate representation to poor clients has been stripped of its class-action status by a Baton Rouge ...

A prosecutor is complaining that a local lawyer who now represents a Baton Rouge woman accused in the 2015 poisoning death of her boyfriend used a typically mundane court filing to unnecessarily ...

As federal authorities report a significant, continued surge in credit card fraud cases nationwide, veteran Baton Rouge criminal defense attorney David E. Stanley is cautioning Louisiana residents ...