People v. Brown

This is an application by assigned counsel in a capital case for an order permitting and authorizing them to travel to Auburn State Prison to interview a witness incarcerated therein and to employ the services of a stenographer there to aid them in such interview and to charge the expenses thereof upon the County of Queens.

The court has no power to compensate assigned counsel or allow assigned counsel any expenses except as provided by section 308 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Section 308 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides in part as follows: “ When services are rendered by…