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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Ind. Courts - Monroe County Chief public defender’s salary cut 10% despite high caseload
Laura Lane of the Bloomington Herald-Times has the story today ($$$). A few quotes:
Chief Public Defender Michael Hunt on Wednesday surrendered his position as Monroe County’s highest-paid official when the county council slashed his $125,647 salary by 10 percent for 2011.Hunt has represented financially struggling clients for more than three decades. He oversees an office that has seen an increasing caseload as more and more indigent defendants are appointed legal representation at the county’s expense.
The deputy public defenders who work for him and handle most of the cases make about $53,000 per year, less than half of their boss’s income and $7,000 less than deputy prosecutors on the other side of the table. * * *
Because Monroe County’s salary ordinance calls for chief deputies to be paid at 75 percent of the department head, chief deputy public defender Michael Spencer’s 2011 salary was reduced to approximately $84,000.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 9, 2010 02:05 PM
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