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Cowlitz County public defense seeks continued conflict-counsel panel; county to consider contract for three private attorneys
Summary
County public defense staff asked commissioners to approve a continuing contract framework to pay local private attorneys who take conflict cases; the proposed pool would retain three named attorneys at a previously negotiated rate and a total not-to-exceed amount based on projected case counts.
A representative of the Office of Public Defense reviewed plans to continue using a small panel of private attorneys to serve as conflict counsel when the county public defender’s office has a conflict.
The speaker said three local criminal defense attorneys — Ted DeBray, Josh Goodday and Dan Morgan — have for years taken conflict cases and that the office proposes retaining them under a contract that mirrors longstanding local practice. The presentation said the hourly/point-based pay formula used in Cowlitz County has…
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