Legal Opinion
Recorder's Court Bar Ass'n v. Wayne Circuit Court
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided August 3, 1993No. 86099, (Calendar No. 1)PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCavanagh, C.J.
We are asked in this case to determine whether the assigned counsel compensation system currently utilized in the Wayne Circuit Court1 and the Detroit Recorder’s Court provides counsel assigned to represent indigent defendants "reasonable compensation” within the meaning of MCL 775.16; MSA 28.1253. We hold that it does not. Because we decide this issue in favor of the petitioners, we need not reach the remaining issues raised in this complaint for superintending control.2
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In June 1988, Chief Judges Dalton A. Roberson of the Detroit Recorder’s Court and Richard C. Kaufman of the Third Circuit…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Storey v. Meijer, Inc.Michigan Supreme Court · 1988
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