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Select lawyers get bulk of juvenile cases
By The Associated Press
Published: 04/21/2008

TEXAS - A relatively small number of lawyers regularly receive nearly half the tax-funded appointments to represent poor defendants in juvenile court in Houston, and many of the attorneys are contributors to the judges making the appointments, a newspaper analysis shows.

Criticized as cronyism by some, the appointments have made several attorneys between $100,000 and $200,000 a year, according to payment records from January 2005 to February 2008 reviewed by the Houston Chronicle. Read more.

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