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The Cost of Justice

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That's the title of a Sunday editorial in the Amarillo Globe-News about the West Texas capital PD office.  LINKRegionalism has its advantages, such as cost-sharing on the most expensive criminal cases - such as those involving capital murder charges. Potter and Randall counties, therefore, have joined with nearly two dozen other West Texas counties in an effort to reduce the cost of trying defendants charged with the most serious criminal offense the state provides. Both counties have been feeling the capital murder pinch for some time now, as they have seen the cost of providing defense counsel for indigent defendants rise. The West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases office is funded by a $3 million grant from the Texas Taskforce for Indigent Defense...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).