In re Straughan

Fletcher, Justice.

This case concerns the fee and expenses of counsel appointed in a death penalty case. Appellants Straughan & Straughan are attorneys from the Oconee Judicial Circuit who occasionally do work in the Dublin Judicial Circuit. In the fall of 1989, appellants were contacted by a superior court judge from the Dublin Circuit and the judicial administrator for that circuit and asked to enter a proposal as to the fee they would require for representation of the defendant in a death penalty case in Johnson County.1 Appellants proposed a fee of $17,500 which was not accepted. However,…