The decision is a major blow to the special prosecutors, who have been fighting for years to be paid a higher rate.
A pair of lawyers who prosecuted Attorney General Ken Paxton on securities fraud charges won’t be paid more than a couple thousand dollars for their work on the case since 2016, a Houston -based appeals court ruled Thursday. They cut a deal with Paxton in March just weeks before the case was set to go to trial.
Texas AG Ken Paxton reaches deal allowing him to avoid trial in criminal securities fraud case The fight over pay is the only unfinished argument in the nine-year long case, one of the longest-running in Texas history. Harris County District Court Judge Andrea Beall in October ruled that the special prosecutors should be paid $300 an hour. On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the 1st Court of Appeals overruled the decision.
Here's why prosecutors in Ken Paxton's fraud case may have agreed to a deal The county says the prosecutors must be paid according to a fee schedule that sets a cap of $2,000 for pretrial work in noncapital cases. The Court of Criminal Appeals, state’s highest criminal court, in 2018 had ruled that the $300-an-hour rate was outside the legal limit.
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