MITCHELL BERG, ATTORNEY

Mitch Berg's office is a single-story timber and adobe building which also serves as his home.

He charges 25 cents for a consultation. He will draw up a deed , will or other legal document for $2 and charges a sliding fee for representing a client in a civil case (usually amounting to l0% of any awards of cash or property gained or saved for the client).

Fees for defending clients in criminal cases include:
minor offense (spitting indoors, drunk and disorderly, petty theft [ under $10]) = S3
assault, resisting arrest = $5
grand theft (robbing a bank or stage, stealing a horse or robbing a white man of more than $10) = $8
murder, rape or arson = $12
Robbing a negro, Mexican or Chinese will always be considered petty theft, regardless of the amount.

Berg's fee will be double if the client is accused of a particularly atrocious crime (one which raises the ire of the townspeople, like shooting the parson). If the crime is really lowdown (killing the schoolmarm, for example), Berg will refuse to take the case at any price.

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