People v. Konono

This is an application by an attorney assigned to a defendant in a capital case for an order directing the Oneida County Comptroller to pay to the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, Inc., the sum of $1,498.16 for services rendered by that agency at the request of the attorney assigned to the defendant.

There is no doubt that the said services were rendered as asked for, nor is there a question about the reasonableness of the charge made for the extensive work performed. Neither is there much question that the services rendered were important to the indigent defendant.

He had…