Virginia Court Appointed Attorneys

Discussing pay for indigent defense.

For the record: as it currently stands, court appointed attorneys are paid $90 per hour with caps as follows:

misdemeanors & preliminary hearings - $112
$148 per appeal of misdemeanors to circuit court
$395 for felonies which max out under 20 years
$1094 for felonies which max over 20 years
Judge's Discretion for capital cases

That's not the amounts which the statute states because the General Assembly has not funded it. As of 01 July 2005 it is supposed to go up a couple dollars.

For further discussion read some of the posts in the right column under Indigent Defense.