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County $2 Million Secret

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That's the title of an article in the Yakima Herald.  The newspaper is suing to obtain an accounting of defense costs in two recent trials.  LINKMonths after two men were convicted and sentenced for murder, Yakima County officials are refusing to release records of how defense attorneys in the case spent $2 million in taxpayer dollars. County officials have turned down a public records request by the Yakima Herald-Republic on the grounds that billing records are sealed by a Superior Court judge and the courts are not governed by the Washington State Public Records Act. The bills were submitted to Yakima County by several attorneys defending two men convicted of killing a father and his 3-year-old daughter in their Yakima apartment in 2005...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).