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$70/hour for death penalty cases [NYT]

Alabama’s method of handling indigent defense has long been ...
Opaque telephone
  09/20/17
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dark national famous landscape painting
  09/20/17
where do we apply
concupiscible chrome pit pisswyrm
  09/20/17
Alabama got rid of the Last Meal b/c it was too nice The st...
Underhanded Talented Candlestick Maker Library
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Effete senate
  09/20/17
half the pay rate? isn't that like $150k
Bateful emerald casino
  09/20/17
140k for 2000 billable hours not included cut bills overhead...
histrionic crimson menage
  09/20/17
$70/hour at the most stressful trial work? Not even insuranc...
Exhilarant primrose point
  09/20/17
And you spend your life dealing with scumbags and visiting p...
Mildly autistic swashbuckling trailer park
  09/20/17
not even remotely close if you are talking about a 40 hour w...
soul-stirring carmine trump supporter
  09/20/17
$70 per hour in alabama should be easily $200 per hour in NY...
Hyperactive chapel
  09/20/17
$60 per hour is the panel rate in NY. LJL. And you cant get ...
Fiercely-loyal meetinghouse pozpig
  09/20/17
LOL so $145,000 in alabama is too TTT to get guilty nigs a d...
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dark national famous landscape painting
  09/20/17
Yeah, and of course the appellate attorney will call anythin...
ocher medicated electric furnace stain
  09/20/17
I wouldn't get out of bed for $70/hour
Mildly autistic swashbuckling trailer park
  09/20/17
It'd be a raise for me
histrionic crimson menage
  09/20/17
i never get out of bed
concupiscible chrome pit pisswyrm
  09/20/17
yeah, you would.
Mustard bipolar address yarmulke
  09/20/17
real dollars, not abbo bux
slate people who are hurt
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dark national famous landscape painting
  09/20/17
Looks like they left three or four zeroes off civil appeals
Mildly autistic swashbuckling trailer park
  09/20/17
lol at flat fees. how to get mega fucked in 2 easy steps. ...
soul-stirring carmine trump supporter
  09/20/17
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titillating cuckold reading party
  09/20/17
Lmao. Just do try a first degree felony for $1,875
Exhilarant primrose point
  09/20/17
bobby, i reviewed the evidence against you yesterday between...
soul-stirring carmine trump supporter
  09/20/17
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ocher medicated electric furnace stain
  09/20/17
yup
chartreuse bearded ticket booth wrinkle
  09/20/17
you guys know that Alabama isn't a real democratic form of g...
chartreuse bearded ticket booth wrinkle
  09/20/17
Libtard paradises like NY generally pay even less because la...
Fiercely-loyal meetinghouse pozpig
  09/20/17


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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:14 AM
Author: Opaque telephone

Alabama’s method of handling indigent defense has long been criticized as deeply flawed, particularly in death penalty cases. It underwent some changes in 2011, but judges still handpick defense lawyers, and they are paid only $70 an hour — less than half the federal pay rate for capital defenders and far too low to attract experienced death penalty lawyers, said Lisa Borden, who oversees pro bono programs at the Baker Donelson law firm in Birmingham. In 2011, former judges on the state’s highest courts told the United States Supreme Court that capital defendants in Alabama faced “a lack of qualified counsel at all stages.”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/us/alabama-kharon-davis-speedy.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248557)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:48 AM
Author: dark national famous landscape painting



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:16 AM
Author: concupiscible chrome pit pisswyrm

where do we apply

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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:16 AM
Author: Underhanded Talented Candlestick Maker Library

Alabama got rid of the Last Meal b/c it was too nice

The state goes hard, probably thinks 70 dollars way too much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248565)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:45 AM
Author: Effete senate



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:17 AM
Author: Bateful emerald casino

half the pay rate? isn't that like $150k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248567)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:20 AM
Author: histrionic crimson menage

140k for 2000 billable hours not included cut bills overhead expenses office and taxes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248576)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:49 AM
Author: Exhilarant primrose point

$70/hour at the most stressful trial work? Not even insurance defense lawyers would work for that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248721)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:51 AM
Author: Mildly autistic swashbuckling trailer park

And you spend your life dealing with scumbags and visiting prisons.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248728)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:16 AM
Author: soul-stirring carmine trump supporter

not even remotely close if you are talking about a 40 hour work week. your bills are screened. if you think you can bill for 100% of your time, you're either

a. an idiot; or

b. in biglaw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248820)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:27 AM
Author: Hyperactive chapel

$70 per hour in alabama should be easily $200 per hour in NYC. so how much does NY pay its death penalty attorneys?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248612)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:17 AM
Author: Fiercely-loyal meetinghouse pozpig

$60 per hour is the panel rate in NY. LJL. And you cant get this work. Lawyers line up around the block to do it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34249859)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:38 AM
Author: Aromatic space milk

LOL so $145,000 in alabama is too TTT to get guilty nigs a decent defense?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248664)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:41 AM
Author: dark national famous landscape painting



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:02 AM
Author: ocher medicated electric furnace stain

Yeah, and of course the appellate attorney will call anything the trial attorney did malpractice.

Did your client testify? Well, that was malpractice because it allowed the state to bring in your client's 15 prior felonies.

Did your client not testify? Well, that was malpractice because you never let the jury hear their side of the story.

Don't really blame appellate counsel for throwing hail mary's, but it makes the jurisprudence lulzy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34249737)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:48 AM
Author: Mildly autistic swashbuckling trailer park

I wouldn't get out of bed for $70/hour

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248714)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:49 AM
Author: histrionic crimson menage

It'd be a raise for me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248719)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:50 AM
Author: concupiscible chrome pit pisswyrm

i never get out of bed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248724)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:57 AM
Author: Mustard bipolar address yarmulke

yeah, you would.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248751)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:45 AM
Author: slate people who are hurt

real dollars, not abbo bux

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248870)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:58 AM
Author: dark national famous landscape painting



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:00 AM
Author: Mildly autistic swashbuckling trailer park

Looks like they left three or four zeroes off civil appeals

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248765)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:15 AM
Author: soul-stirring carmine trump supporter

lol at flat fees.

how to get mega fucked in 2 easy steps.

step 1-consider flat fee

step 2-accept flat fee

related, those fees are really fucking shitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248817)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:19 AM
Author: titillating cuckold reading party



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:22 AM
Author: Exhilarant primrose point

Lmao. Just do try a first degree felony for $1,875

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248832)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:27 AM
Author: soul-stirring carmine trump supporter

bobby, i reviewed the evidence against you yesterday between 1:00 and 1:13.

my advice is that you accept the plea offer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34248840)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:03 AM
Author: ocher medicated electric furnace stain



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:10 AM
Author: chartreuse bearded ticket booth wrinkle

yup



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:11 AM
Author: chartreuse bearded ticket booth wrinkle

you guys know that Alabama isn't a real democratic form of govt right

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34249806)



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:20 AM
Author: Fiercely-loyal meetinghouse pozpig

Libtard paradises like NY generally pay even less because lawyers will do this shit for free.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3737250&forum_id=2#34249873)