Attorney defending Debbie Dorian's accused killer says she could drop case

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With prosecutors wanting to enactment Nickey Stane to death, the pistillate defending him could present beryllium conscionable weeks distant from dropping out.

"That is not lightly done," defence lawyer Jane Boulger told Action News. "That's wherefore I've kept asking. But this has to beryllium it," she said.

Boulger confirms she has made a "final" petition for much money.

"(Stane) needs to person effectual counsel, and effectual counsel needs to beryllium capable to enactment truthful galore hours and days," she said.

For years, Boulger has defended Stane against the execution of Debbie Dorian and a drawstring of intersexual assaults successful Visalia.

He has denied each of the charges done Boulger, who was appointed and paid for by the court.

"It's conscionable impractical the mode they person the outgo docket acceptable up," she said. "In 5 years, I've been paid $43,000 for a decease punishment case."

It breaks down to betwixt $20 and $40 an hour.

She wants $150 per hour, which is inactive good beneath what backstage attorneys told Action News they would charge.

"It's not just to Mr. Stane," Boulger said. "He is entitled to idiosyncratic who tin give arsenic overmuch clip arsenic needed."

Boulger has present progressive the ACLU, which is the latest twist successful a lawsuit that has been dilatory from the start.

It took investigators much than 20 years to find a DNA match. A justice aboriginal cleared the lawsuit for proceedings successful 2023.

Boulger has fought prosecutors astatine each step, including connected Wednesday, erstwhile she asked for the lawsuit to beryllium thrown retired again.

"It is the court's intent to contradict the motion," Judge Arlan Harrell said.

The justice is present anxious to acceptable the lawsuit for proceedings and encouraged the attorneys to find a date.

But if Boulger withdraws, the region indispensable find caller attorneys for Stane.

"Someone volition person to commencement each implicit and work each of the material," she said. "If you work an hr and a fractional a day, it volition instrumentality 3 years to spell done everything."

Boulger's latest petition is present successful the hands of the court's apical judge. Action News reached retired contiguous and was told the tribunal cannot remark connected pending cases.

Everybody is present owed backmost successful tribunal connected April 10.

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