In a major loss for the special prosecutors, the First Court of Appeals in Houston ruled that a lower court erred in ordering the lawyers to be paid $300 an hour for their work on the Paxton fraud case.
Brian Wice and Kent Schaffer, special prosecutors in the fraud case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, talk to the media August 3, 2023 at in Houston, Texas.to be paid $300-an-hour for their work on the case. In its decision, a three-judge panel of the appeals court wrote Harris County District Court Judge Andrea Beall did not have the authority to order a pay rate of that amount.over how much the special prosecutors should be paid, and it likely won’t end here.
Dan Cogdell, one of Paxton's lawyers, blamed the special prosecutors for delaying the fraud case while they fought to get paid. He added that their $300-an-hour rate was"misplaced." In 2018, the state’s highest criminal court sided with the commissioners and struck down the $300-an-hour rate.last November that the prosecutors be paid their originally-promised rate for their work on the case in 2016. But the
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