Legal Opinion
Jewell v. Maynard
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided July 21, 1989No. 18320PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEELY, Justice:
Today we must revisit a subject first addressed in State ex rel. Partain v. Oakley, 159 W.Va. 805, 227 S.E.2d 314 (1976), concerning the constitutionality of West Virginia’s system for providing counsel to indigents at state expense. In Partain, we held that the system in effect in 1976 was unconstitutional because rates of pay for indigent work were so low and the volume of appointed cases so burdensome that the system took lawyers’ property without just compensation. Partain, 159 W.Va. at 821-22, 227 S.E.2d at 322-323.
Although the Court in Partain did not prohibit involuntary…
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