Key state lawmakers said this week they want to enhance the accountability of the state's public defender system before tackling the thorny issue of finding enough money to run it. Under indigent ...

Missouri's current public defender system is broken. It's not broken because there is "constitutional crisis" created by too large a caseload for public defenders. No, an independent audit released ...

At the end of February, State Public Defender Rémy Starns notified five of the 37 district defenders that their contracts would not be renewed. Over the last several years, oversight and governance of ...