Christopher Parker-Cyrus v. Justice Administrative Commission

Petitioner raises two challenges to the trial court’s order limiting his attorney’s fees award to double the statutory flat fee for representing an indigent defendant. First, Petitioner argues that the trial court’s initial order departed from the essential requirements of the law by failing to include findings as to the reasonableness of the number of hours Petitioner expended in determining whether the fee award was confiscatory. Second, Petitioner argues for the first time in his reply that the trial court’s amended order departed from the essential requirements of the law because the…