Just one typo I noticed: "Jefferson County spends about $15.40 per capita on its dedicated office, while Montgomery County spends $2207 (these figures include the money paid to private attorneys for conflict cases) Etowah County ($18.44) and Lauderdale County ($18.07) contract all cases to private attorneys, and both spend somewhere in between those two figures..."
either indigent defense attorneys in Montgomery County are REALLY well paid, or you missed a decimal.
Invaluable reporting as always from Radley Balko.
If public officials were required to use indigent defense, funding would triple overnight.
Just one typo I noticed: "Jefferson County spends about $15.40 per capita on its dedicated office, while Montgomery County spends $2207 (these figures include the money paid to private attorneys for conflict cases) Etowah County ($18.44) and Lauderdale County ($18.07) contract all cases to private attorneys, and both spend somewhere in between those two figures..."
either indigent defense attorneys in Montgomery County are REALLY well paid, or you missed a decimal.
Thanks!