Pennsylvania Code
Pennsylvania Code & Bulletin
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

• No statutes or acts will be found at this website.

The Pennsylvania Bulletin website includes the following: Rulemakings by State agencies; Proposed Rulemakings by State agencies; State agency notices; the Governor’s Proclamations and Executive Orders; Actions by the General Assembly; and Statewide and local court rules.

PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 13-175

THE COURTS

PHILADELPHIA COUNTY

Compensation for Conflict Capital Case Representation; Administrative Order No. 01 of 2013

[43 Pa.B. 658]
[Saturday, February 2, 2013]

Order

 And now, this 17th day of January, 2013, the January 14, 2013 Order is amended to read as follows:

 By decision of the Administrative Governing Board of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, compensation of conflict counsel in capital cases is hereby modified as follows:

 (1) counsel appointed in capital cases on and after February 22, 2012 shall be paid a flat fee of $10,000 (lead counsel) and $7,500 (penalty phase counsel), irrespective of whether the case is tried to verdict or otherwise disposed and resolved; and

 (2) lead counsel and penalty phase counsel shall receive a per diem payment of $400 for each day of their trial representation in excess of one week (five full days), in addition to the above flat fees and regardless of the date of counsel's appointment.

 This Administrative Order is issued in accordance with the March 26, 1996 order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Eastern District, No. 164 Judicial Administration, Docket No. 1, as amended, and shall become effective immediately. This Order and attachments shall be filed with the Prothonotary in a docket maintained for Orders issued by the Administrative Governing Board of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. One certified copy of this Order and attachments shall be submitted to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, two certified copies and one copy on a computer diskette shall be distributed to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, and the Order and attachments shall also be published in The Legal Intelligencer. Copies of the Order and attachments shall also be posted on the First Judicial District's website at http://courts.phila.gov, and submitted to American Lawyer Media, Jenkins Memorial Law Library, and the Law Library for the First Judicial District.

By the Court

HONORABLE JOHN W. HERRON, 
Chair, Administrative Governing Board of the
First Judicial District of Pennsylvania
Administrative Judge, Trial Division
Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 13-175. Filed for public inspection February 1, 2013, 9:00 a.m.]


No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit.

This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Bulletin full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.