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Hunt County DA seeks two prosecutors and permanent funding for victim services coordinator
Summary
First assistant DA Steve Lilly asked commissioners to add two attorney positions to handle rising felony filings and to fund the victim's assistance coordinator position currently paid by a state grant (SB 22). Commissioners raised questions about long-term funding and space.
Steve Lilly, first assistant district attorney for Hunt County, asked the Commissioner’s Court on June 24 to fund two additional prosecutors and to consider making the office’s grant-funded victim’s assistance coordinator a permanent, county‑funded position.
Lilly said intake and case-review work have grown substantially since the office last added an attorney in 2015; he told the court that if current filing trends continue the office will review roughly 1,200 felony cases in the calendar year and that the intake function is currently handled by one person. “We need more prosecutors. We need 2 new prosecutors,” Lilly said.
Lilly explained the workload growth in two parts: the…
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