Just about everyone in the Philadelphia criminal justice system thinks that the private counsel who represent indigent defendants should be paid more. But the question is how a cash-strapped city is going to pay for it.
The issue has come to the forefront because of hearings scheduled to open today over whether the fees the city pays to capital defense lawyers are unconstitutional. The state Supreme Court ordered Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Senior Judge Benjamin Lerner, the homicide calendar judge, to conduct fact-finding into whether the fees paid to capital defense lawyers are unconstitutional.
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