EARL v. TULSA COUNTY DIST. COURT

No. 53952.

606 P.2d 545 (1979)

Leslie R. EARL, Public Defender; Thomas W. Burns, Assistant Public Defender; Pete Silva, Jr., Assistant Public Defender; John Dratz, Jr., Assistant Public Defender; Deborah Shallcross, Assistant Public Defender; Frank H. McCarthy, Assistant Public Defender; Frank M. Laphen, Assistant Public Defender, Petitioners, v. TULSA COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, William W. Means, District Court Judge; Richard Armstrong, District Court Judge; Bill Beasley, Associate District Court Judge; Robert Caldwell, District Court Judge; Richard Comfort, District Court Judge; Jay Dalton, District Court, Judge; Raymond Graham, District Court Judge; Patricia Hoebel, District Court Judge; Joe Jennings, District Court Judge; Margaret Lamm, District Court Judge; Robert Martin, District Court Judge; M.M. McDougal, District Court Judge; Ronald Ricketts, District Court Judge; David Winslow, District Court Judge, Tulsa County Court Fund Board, William W. Means, District Court Judge; Bill Beasley, Associate District Court Judge; Don Austin, Court Clerk, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

As Amended January 28, 1980.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Wolfe, Paul D. Brunton, Tulsa, for petitioners.

S.M. Fallis, Jr., James F. Raymond, Tulsa, for respondents.


OPALA, Justice.

The question sought to be presented is whether by the terms of 19 O.S.Supp. 1974 § 138.4(a)1 discretion is reposed in the district judges in each of the two affected counties2 to establish the public defender's salary and that of each of his/her bugetarily authorized assistants at some level "commensurate with" that provided for the counterpart...

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