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| Death Row Inmates' Expert Witness Bills State For $3.5 Million |
| By courant.com- John Lender |
| Published: 09/18/2014 |
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Many legal twists arose in the long-running lawsuit by death row inmates who claimed Connecticut's death penalty is racially biased, but maybe the biggest twist was financial: After the five inmates lost the case, their expert witness billed the state for $3.5 million, for six years of services. The six years' worth of invoices from Stanford law school professor John J. Donohue III gave the state's Public Defender Services Commission a bad case of sticker-shock. Public records show that the commission balked early this year before finally agreeing to pay half the sum, $1.75 million — and only after getting the state legislature and governor to approve emergency funding for the payment. It was quietly included in the new state budget approved in May, and Donohue was paid June 21. Read More. |
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