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Did the Virginia Beach actually stop prosecuting domestic violence? If anyone has seen any followup on this please go to my site and e-mail me.

As to the comment that the Commonwealth gives more money to defend the accused than it does the prosecutors, I don't see my office having dozens of uniformed police doing investigations for my clients, I don't have the Commonwealth paying for my office and my legal library, the Commonwealth doesn't pay for me to have secretaries or paralegals, and payment of court appointed attorneys in Virginia has long been recognized as among the worst in the United States (48th or 50th).** The Court of Appeals did a heck of a two step in order to find this system constitutional.

**Note that this is from the NACDL which is hostile to both prosecutors (obviously) and court appointed attorneys. We all must be good socialist members of the public defenders offices in order to defend our clients properly. While I think that the numbers are correct I also think that this article is in essence propoganda (obvious explanations are not offered). If anyone is interested in my response drop a line and I will rant further in this blawg.