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Howard County Mulls Joining PD Pool

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The Big Spring Herald reports, "County considers capital crime insurance."Howard County commissioners are considering joining an 85-county public defender task force in order to hold down costs of capital murder cases. The goal of the task force is for counties to pool their resources to help pay for the rising costs of providing defense counsel for death penalty cases. Jack Stoffregen, an attorney with the West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases task force, addressed commissioners during their Monday meeting and said his organization could end up saving the county tens of thousands of dollars by providing qualified public defenders in capital cases. ?The cost of capital cases to counties is enormous,? he said, estimating that Howard County would end up spending anywhere between $80,000 and $200,000 per death penalty trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).