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The Big Spring Herald reports, "County to Consider Joing Public Defender Task Force."Howard County commissioners are expected to consider joining an 85-county public defender task force Monday morning, in an effort to keep costs down on capital murder cases. According to Jack Stoffregen, an attorney with the West Texas Regional Public Defender for Capital Cases task force, the goal of the organization is for counties to pool their resources to help pay for the rising costs of providing defense counsel for death penalty cases. ?The cost of capital cases to counties is enormous,? he said, estimating that Howard County could end up spending anywhere between $80,000 and $200,000 per death penalty trial. He said the cost to Howard County taxpayers under the task force would be slightly more than $53,000 over a four-year period...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 14, 2008 (boomark / email).