Thursday, March 29, 2018
The judiciary's Defender Services account received fiscal year 2018 funding in the "Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018" to increase the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) panel attorney hourly rates from $132 to $140 for non-capital work and from $185 to $188 for capital work performed on or after March 23, 2018.
The non-capital rate increase will result in increases to the panel attorney case compensation maximums in non-capital cases.