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  1. 10-12-2021, 01:17 PM #1
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    Somebody help me out here---please

    The couple who have been accused of trying to sell classified information, to as yet an unidentified foreign country, have been charged in WV with communication of restricted data and conspiracy to communicate restricted data.

    The husband works for the Navy as a nuclear propulsion expert and his wife is a teacher with a Ph.D., they have two children. The guidelines (I read them) for representation by a public defender in WV is an income less than 25% above the poverty line, with a family of 4 that is $36,800 in family income. I have a very difficult time thinking that these two make less than that---so how is that they get a free bus ticket?

    If guilty, may they get the level of defense they paid for
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    Just a guess on my part but I suspect you are looking at the requirements for a WV public defender vs. a federal public defender. The are charged in federal court and will be provided with federal public defenders. Just at a glance the eligibility is pretty broad and appears to be mostly at the discretion of the federal magistrate.
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    You are correct---I did look at the WV requirements---thank you
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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