Free Republic

The former prosecutors and investigator who were terminated by Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline are no longer being paid by the county, the county’s legal counsel said Tuesday. A federal judge on Thursday dissolved a temporary order from a District Court judge that had allowed the salaries to stay in place, chief counsel Don Jarrett said. The salary payments stopped Friday, he said. The county had been spending more than $2,000 a day to cover salary costs for the eight employees. Kline dismissed them without warning Jan. 8, the same day he was sworn in as district attorney. Jarrett...