Posted on 09/18/2006 6:16:11 AM PDT by Smoke Bomb
Oregon City - Killer's re-sentencing: $450,257.78
The bills are in: The defense of serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers in his third sentencing trial cost Oregon taxpayers $450,257.78.
Rogers' attorneys submitted their bills to the Office of Public Defense Services, which this month tallied them at the request of The Oregonian.
During a seven-week trial that ended in March, Rogers' defense team argued for life in prison, but a 12-person jury sentenced him to death. Rogers had twice been sentenced to death for the 1987 murders of six women, whose bodies he dumped in the Molalla area woods, but the Oregon Supreme Court had twice overturned those sentences, while letting his conviction stand.
Kathryn Aylward, director of contract and business services for the public defense office, said information on the total cost of defending Rogers since 1987 wasn't readily available. Rogers' case is being automatically appealed to the Oregon Supreme Court, the first in a 10-step process that could take 10 or 15 more years.
Sounds series.
This is just the defense for one trial. He has had three and the prosecution has probally spent way more than this.
woops I meant to post this to you Texas LOL
But nooooo, that is a mean thing to do to a serial killer.
Not finding this article.
http://www.oregonlive.com/search/index.ssf?sconfig=olive&xpath.attraction_type=-EXCLUDE+-exclude+-zzz&xpath.pubdate=09%2F18%2F06+09%2F17%2F06+09%2F16%2F06+09%2F15%2F06+09%2F14%2F06+09%2F13%2F06+09%2F12%2F06+09%2F11%2F06+09%2F10%2F06+09%2F09%2F06+09%2F08%2F06+09%2F07%2F06+09%2F06%2F06+09%2F05%2F06&count=20&xref=7&xpath.any=Rogers
Got a link?
Thanks
Welcome, btw. Might wanna have the mods correct your title to the original: Oregon City - Killer's re-sentencing: $450,257.78
The reason is so a search will avoid duplicates. Plus, your title provides no context - spending huge amount on what? McDonald's? Christmas presents?
So at what point does a person have the 'right' to not burn up my money while getting extra days that those six women did not get?
LOL
Larry the reason I put that was because this is happening all over the states. Dayton is only one of thousands that throughout America that are costing the taxpayers money. Just imagine how much money it would be in all if you added up all the appeals in the nation.
Oh, I agree. Some posters will put extra relevant comments in brackets after the title (like "barf alert," "Dowd alert," etc.). Judicious use of keywords can help get an article noticed, too.
LOL Barf Alert LOLOLOL!
Stick around. You'll see a little bit of everything. :-)
Yeah I am sure I will but I am pretty mellow and don't let the stupid s*** bother me.
The title should really say, "Lawyers get rich defending scumbag."
That would work but it still comes from the taxpayers money.
Larry how do you get ahold of the mods?
sorry wrong post. I meant to post this to Larry.
Man this site is making me dizzy. I keep posting to the wrong person or myself LOL! Anyway how do you get ahold of the mods? My daughter was messing around with my PC all weekend and she really messed it up. I can't do anything with it now. I guess I'll have to crash it and restore it. God only knows what the heck she did here.
a bullet costs $ .35
"Sounds series."
'Tis series indeed. The costs are Hugh. And the taxpayers are about to talk to Hughy & Ralph.
Stand well clear of the lee rail during that talk.
LOL
You can just add Admin Moderator to the "To:" box, or for a faster response you can hit the "abuse" button on yourself and write a quick note explaining what you need. Don't worry, "self abuse" isn't frowned on around here. LOL!
Thanks Larry... :-)
I'm a lawyer and when I was first starting out in private practice I used to do a lot of these court appointed cases. They were barely worth the effort. Whatever bills you submit, they end up getting chopped down to next to nothing. You bill for everything you can think of knowing this will happen. I'd never get all my hours and all my expenses paid on these cases. Shoot, some of the judges used to only appoint people they were mad at it seems, and once you are appointed there is pretty much no getting out of these cases. I doubt these guys get paid anywhere near what they billed, and I don't doubt that they invested an enormous number of man hours from both the attorneys and their staff members, and they probably had huge expenses too. This seven weeks in trial only represents a very small fraction of the work performed on this case. Attorneys do not get rich handling court appointed criminal cases. In many cases what attorneys actually end up getting paid on these cases doesn't even cover their expenses. Things vary from state to state, but I wouldn't be surprised if the attorneys on this case actually collect far less than what they billed.
IBTZ?
Do you do Capitol cases?
Let the con handload his own, that will cut costs.
I don't think they let them have guns in prison :-)
I think lawyers should be treated like physicians. In order to use the government court house they must "have someone on call". The on call lawyers MUST take any indigent person case who presents to the court house without funds to pay for their own care. Let us see how they would like that. The government will pay said on call lawyer a set fee for global legal fees. Oh like 1,000.00 about what I get payed for 9 months of maternity care with deliver no matter the complications during that time and no matter vaginal delivery in 20 minutes or C/S for emergency fetal distress at 0300 with mother bleding out and anethesia 20 minutes away.
I've helped with a couple but I haven't been lead attorney on one yet. I'd just as soon never have any of those. They take up all your time. It's a little different where I live though. We don't have that many murders and there hasn't been a death penalty case tried in my county in years. All our trials are short too. I don't think there has ever been even a death penalty case in my county that has taken more than four days to try, at least none in the last fifteen years or so that I can remember. Some have been completed in one day, with the jury being selected in the morning and not being released until late in the evening when they finally have their verdict on sentencing. Still, an enormous amount of work is done on those cases during the months leading up to the trial. There are a lot of motions going back and forth, a lot of procedural matters and little hearings that need to be handled, just a lot of hoops specific to death penalty cases that lawyers have to jump through. I have over a hundred felony clients facing up to life in prison and I handle piles and piles of misdemeanor and juvenile cases. I can barely find the time to handle those. I'd never be able to handle my current caseload if I had any death penalty cases.
Your entitled to your opinion. :-)
Well I have a law degree and I am really good at helping attorneys get "caught up". If you need any help, maybe I'd be good for a few hours here and there. I know a lot about all of this (been working with the system for a long time) and yeah I know, the hoops can be a real challenge at times. Where are you at?
Not if you send the convict piggin' in Texas. We believe in a great tasting last meal, even a few cold beers or whatever. No muss, no fuss when it is all said and done. John Q. Public will not even spend one thin dime for the internment of the remains. Think of it as "totally organic, dude".
Another thing is you have to go through all the bull*** to be able to be on the Capitol attorney defense board. That in itself is about a week long 15 hours a day job to convince the board that you are indeed capable of handling such a case. This is interesting. I do have a couple of other articles that I am going to post that are even more interesting. The public has no clue how hard the law is to work with. It is indeed one of the hardest things to work with.
They do :-)
"I think lawyers should be treated like physicians. In order to use the government court house they must "have someone on call". The on call lawyers MUST take any indigent person case who presents to the court house without funds to pay for their own care. Let us see how they would like that. The government will pay said on call lawyer a set fee for global legal fees. Oh like 1,000.00 about what I get payed for 9 months of maternity care with deliver"
That's pretty much the way it works in a lot of places. When I was in private practice I handled a lot of court appointed felony cases where I made considerably less than a grand, even if I might have twenty or thirty hours or more invested in the case. On lesser felonies in the lower end of the sentencing range they capped us at $250 in attorneys fees per case even in complex cases that involved a lot of work. You can't turn down these appointments either and it always takes forever to get paid. Things are different everywhere but for the most part these court appointed cases are not a good deal for lawyers.
Except in Texas. If somebody kills a person in our great state, we will kill them back. Sad, yet true. Scads of lawyers will fight this. Such is the shame. I am not a huge proponent of the death penalty. My state legislature is. Therefore, it will be done. I have not heard a hue and cry about the federal case gainst McVeigh, by the way. That POS took the needle without a whimper. Where where you?
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