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I have a question that I'm hoping some of the legal experts in here can answer:
Original Defence Team are court-appointed ergo paid by State taxpayers. Their hours and work, and office space etc are on the taxpayers dime.
If they do/did continue to work Allen's case "Pro-Bono", are they having take vacation days to show up for court appearances and trial, prohibited from working the case in any way, shape or form from their taxpayer paid offices, using state resources etc? Must do all ther work after going home for the day (ie: cannot work the case during their paid hours or in their state workplace or sing any state resources).
If not and they can use State time & dime, resources and working hours that taxpayers are paying for ... are they really representing Allen "pro-bono"??
It would seem to me that any other means would infer that the State was still "paying" and ergo they wouldn't actually be "pro-bono" at all??
Original defense team are attorneys in private practice. In short-staffed PD offices or in very small counties where the PD office may be small, private attorneys are pulled from a list to fill the void. B&W were pulled to rep RA, but this never made them public defenders. It only set them up to be paid as PDs for his case at a rate much lower than what they would likely receive if privately retained. Their appearance filings last night to continue on as pro bono counsel "in the event they are not reinstated as his PDs" would have resulted in them doing this work for free and in eating all of the costs associated with the representation. To go to these lengths has me convinced they believe in his innocence but this is speculation only. They could have easily washed their hands of this.
jmo