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: StandDown Texas Project

Profiteering at the Expense of the Exonerated or Cost of Business?

By Steve Hall

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"Exonerated man fights $1 million payout to lawyer," is the title of Mitch Mitchell's Fort Worth Star-Telegram report. A man freed from prison by DNA evidence has asked a judge to stop his former lawyer from taking more than $1 million in fees out of his expected $4 million in state compensation.Lawyers for Steven C. Phillips, 51, filed a petition in state district court in Dallas asking the judge to declare an agreement with his former lawyer "unconscionable and thus unenforceable." That contract with his former lawyer obligated Phillips to give up one-fourth of his award from the state for the 24 years he spent incarcerated for a string of sexual assaults the courts now say he did not commit. "I?ve got kids and grandkids out here," Phillips told the Star-Telegram...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).

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