Trials & Litigation
Texas county should pay jurors almost $27K after case was dropped
Twelve jurors and two options every will obtain $26,700 for 3 days of labor and almost two years of being ordered to take care of impartiality, with Travis County, Texas, going through a invoice of almost $375,000. (Photograph by Jackal Pan/Getty Photographs)
Twelve jurors and two options every will obtain $26,700 for 3 days of labor and almost two years of being ordered to take care of impartiality, with Travis County, Texas, going through a invoice of almost $375,000, in line with a court docket order.
The payout stems from an evidence-tampering case in opposition to former Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody and former Assistant Williamson County Lawyer Jason Nassour in reference to the 2019 in-custody dying of Javier Ambler.
Proof was first offered in August 2024, however the trial was placed on maintain that Aug. 15 because the prosecutors filed an enchantment. The jurors have been instructed by the court docket to take care of impartiality as in the event that they have been on an in a single day recess for the next 457 days.
Jurors and alternates are entitled to a minimal of $20 for his or her first day of service and a minimum of $58 for all following days, in line with the order signed July 13.
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