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The Federal Public Defender's Office represents individuals who cannot afford to hire a lawyer in federal criminal cases and related matters. The office is assigned to cases by the district courts in three districts (New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts), and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Mark Wolf was born in Boston, Massachusetts.He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and from Harvard Law School in 1971.. Prior to his appointment as Judge in 1985, Wolf served in the United States Department of Justice as a Special Assistant to United States Deputy Attorney General Laurence Silberman (1974) and as a Special Assistant to United States Attorney General Edward Levi (1975-1977 ...
Each district also has a United States Marshal who serves the court system. Three territories of the United States — the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands — have district courts that hear federal cases, including bankruptcy cases. [1] The breakdown of what is in each judicial district is codified in 28 U.S.C. §§ 81–131.
From 1801 to 1802, the District of Columbia and pieces of Maryland and Virginia formed the United States District Court for the District of Potomac, which was the first United States district court to cross state lines. During the same period, the United States District Court for the District of Norfolk was carved out of another piece of ...
From 1992 to 2005, Guzman served as a public defender for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. She was a sole practitioner in Worcester, Massachusetts , from 2005 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017, she served as a judge on Dudley District Court . [ 4 ]
Angel Kelley U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kelley to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to the seat vacated by Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, who assumed senior status on June 1, 2015.
In 2005, he was appointed as a United States magistrate judge in the District of Massachusetts, becoming chief United States magistrate judge in 2012. [1]On December 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Sorokin to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to the seat vacated by Judge Joseph L. Tauro, who assumed senior ...
The United States courts of appeals, or Federal Circuit Courts or U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the United States district courts and some U.S. administrative agencies , and their decisions can be appealed to the Supreme Court of the ...