In re RECORDER'S COURT BAR ASSOCIATION
v.
WAYNE CIRCUIT COURT
Supreme Court of Michigan.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued November 9, 1992.
Decided August 3, 1993.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bellanca, Beattie & DeLisle, P.C. (by Frank D. Eaman), for the plaintiff.
Joseph F. Chiesa, Diane P. Lemanek, and Kimberley D.R. Reed, for respondent Chief Judge of Wayne County Circuit Court.
Hon. Richard Kaufman and Dykema, Gossett (by Kathleen McCree Lewis and Cheryl A. Fletcher) for intervening respondent Wayne County.
Amici Curiae:
Barbara R. Levine for Michigan Appellate Assigned Counsel System.
Kraizman & Kraizman (by Sidney Kraizman and Frederick M. Finn) for the Detroit Bar Association.
Law, Weathers & Richardson (by Douglas W. Van Essen) for the Funding Class of Michigan Municipalities.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
CAVANAGH, C.J.
We are asked in this case to determine whether the assigned counsel compensation system currently utilized in the Wayne Circuit Court1 and the Detroit Recorder's Court provides counsel assigned to represent indigent defendants "reasonable compensation" within the meaning of MCL 775.16; MSA 28.1253. We hold that it does not. Because we decide this issue in favor of the petitioners, we need not reach the remaining issues raised...
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