More than 10,000 private attorneys will see less pay in federal indigent defense cases under the judiciary’s latest effort to deal with budget restraints Congress imposed.
The U.S. Judicial Conference has announced plans to reduce compensation rates to the private Criminal Justice Act panel attorneys by $15 per hour starting September 1—and continuing for the next 13 months—if Congress does not increase funding for the courts in the 2014 budget.
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