Harris County is paying private attorneys $60 million every year to handle court...
Judge Amy Martin listens to Andre Jackson's defense attorney Jerome Godinich, right, and prosecutor Tiffany Duprie, left, discuss Jackson's case in the Harris County Criminal Courts, Wednesday, June 19, 2019, in Houston. Jackson is charged with the 2016 murder of 11-year-old Josue Flores.It'd be easy to make Jeanie Ortiz the poster child for all that ails the Harris County court system.
in other places, is entrusted mostly to public defenders. Yet, in Harris County in 2022, private court-appointed attorneysAs therecently, the money the county paid Ortiz could have been spent on hiring at least five full-time public defenders. Of course, being actual county employees, all five would be subject to strict caseload limits, which could mean better representation but could also mean the county's dollar wouldn't go as far.
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