Courts Cannot Defy Funding Decisions, Raise Bar Advocates Pay, State Supreme Court Rules

“It is not within the judiciary’s constitutionally circumscribed role to second-guess the legislature’s judgment as to the most effective system for the provision of public defense of indigent criminal defendants,” the high court said.

       

“It is not within the judiciary’s constitutionally circumscribed role to second-guess the legislature’s judgment as to the most effective system for the provision of public defense of indigent criminal defendants,” the high court said.