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$70/hour for death penalty cases [NYT]

Alabama’s method of handling indigent defense has long been ...
Exciting house
  09/20/17
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Aquamarine Drunken Generalized Bond Gay Wizard
  09/20/17
where do we apply
vigorous disturbing point
  09/20/17
Alabama got rid of the Last Meal b/c it was too nice The st...
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  09/20/17
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walnut national turdskin
  09/20/17
half the pay rate? isn't that like $150k
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  09/20/17
140k for 2000 billable hours not included cut bills overhead...
laughsome milky tattoo
  09/20/17
$70/hour at the most stressful trial work? Not even insuranc...
Curious french school son of senegal
  09/20/17
And you spend your life dealing with scumbags and visiting p...
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  09/20/17
not even remotely close if you are talking about a 40 hour w...
wonderful peach stead
  09/20/17
$70 per hour in alabama should be easily $200 per hour in NY...
hairraiser embarrassed to the bone idiot
  09/20/17
$60 per hour is the panel rate in NY. LJL. And you cant get ...
underhanded white university
  09/20/17
LOL so $145,000 in alabama is too TTT to get guilty nigs a d...
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Aquamarine Drunken Generalized Bond Gay Wizard
  09/20/17
Yeah, and of course the appellate attorney will call anythin...
Indecent plaza
  09/20/17
I wouldn't get out of bed for $70/hour
seedy razzle-dazzle headpube stage
  09/20/17
It'd be a raise for me
laughsome milky tattoo
  09/20/17
i never get out of bed
vigorous disturbing point
  09/20/17
yeah, you would.
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  09/20/17
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  09/20/17
Looks like they left three or four zeroes off civil appeals
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wonderful peach stead
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  09/20/17
Lmao. Just do try a first degree felony for $1,875
Curious french school son of senegal
  09/20/17
bobby, i reviewed the evidence against you yesterday between...
wonderful peach stead
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Indecent plaza
  09/20/17
yup
Overrated Digit Ratio
  09/20/17
you guys know that Alabama isn't a real democratic form of g...
Overrated Digit Ratio
  09/20/17
Libtard paradises like NY generally pay even less because la...
underhanded white university
  09/20/17


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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:14 AM
Author: Exciting house

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: Aquamarine Drunken Generalized Bond Gay Wizard



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:16 AM
Author: vigorous disturbing point

where do we apply

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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:16 AM
Author: drab place of business affirmative action

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: walnut national turdskin



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Date: September 20th, 2017 1:17 AM
Author: glittery at-the-ready party of the first part theater stage

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: laughsome milky tattoo

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: Curious french school son of senegal

$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: seedy razzle-dazzle headpube stage

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: wonderful peach stead

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: hairraiser embarrassed to the bone idiot

$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: underhanded white university

$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: Narrow-minded startled personal credit line

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: Aquamarine Drunken Generalized Bond Gay Wizard



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:02 AM
Author: Indecent plaza

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: seedy razzle-dazzle headpube stage

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: laughsome milky tattoo

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: vigorous disturbing point

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: hyperventilating submissive cruise ship

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: autistic heady antidepressant drug

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: Aquamarine Drunken Generalized Bond Gay Wizard



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:00 AM
Author: seedy razzle-dazzle headpube stage

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: wonderful peach stead

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: mildly autistic sable dopamine whorehouse



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Date: September 20th, 2017 2:22 AM
Author: Curious french school son of senegal

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: wonderful peach stead

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: Indecent plaza



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:10 AM
Author: Overrated Digit Ratio

yup



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Date: September 20th, 2017 10:11 AM
Author: Overrated Digit Ratio

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: underhanded white university

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)