LONGFELLOW v. STATE

No. 90-26.

803 P.2d 1383 (1991)

In re Order Dismissing Motion for Payment of Expenses Mindi Hobson LONGFELLOW, Appellant (Defendant), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

January 10, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wyoming Public Defender Program: Leonard D. Munker, State Public Defender, and Barbara L. Lauer, Asst. Appellate Counsel, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., John W. Renneisen, Deputy Atty. Gen., Karen A. Byrne, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., and D. Michael Pauling, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the state.

Roberta A. Coates, amicus curiae, for Laramie County, Wyo.

Before CARDINE, C.J., and THOMAS, URBIGKIT, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ.


THOMAS, Justice.

Responsibility for the payment of travel and related expenses, together with witness fees, for witnesses subpoenaed by an indigent defendant is the question raised in this appeal. The public defender, by motion, requested that these expenses be paid by Laramie County, but the district court refused to impose this expense upon the county, ruling instead that these expenses should be paid by the office of the public defender. The ruling of the district...

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