LAY, Chief Judge.
The sole issue in this case is whether the courts of Missouri may compel private attorneys to represent indigent defendants when the state legislature has failed to appropriate sufficient funds to compensate lawyers for their services or to pay expenses deemed necessary for the defense of the accused.
On April 9, 1981, a state circuit judge, the Honorable Paul E. Vardeman, appointed petitioner, J. D. Williamson, to represent Robert Powell...
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