State Ex Rel. Robins v. Hodges

OPINION

WALTERS, Justice.

The Public Defender has petitioned us to make permanent our earlier-issued temporary writ of superintending control. Although other respondents and real parties in interest were initially named in the petition and controlled by the alternative writ, this Opinion, in support of our permanent writ issued herein, concerns only that case relating to attorney fees allowed by the district court over and above the amount agreed upon in written documents exchanged between the Public Defender Department and the “farm-out” defense attorney, and in excess of the Public Defender’s…