Every year, more than half of rural Texans accused of misdemeanors are left to represent themselves — five times the rate of ...

Of the 33 men called over these last three Fridays, only two of the defendants showed, and that was for the first day. By the second round, no defendants were willing to show their faces in the ...

By the second round, no defendants were willing to show their faces in the courtroom or walk the gauntlet of reporters and anti-sex trafficking protesters ringing the satellite courthouse of ...