Posted on 09/18/2006 6:16:11 AM PDT by Smoke Bomb
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. :-)
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