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Key Suffolk judge urges county to raise Legal Aid funding

An unusual coalition is rallying to back a $973,000 increase in funding requested by the Suffolk Legal Aid Society that County Executive Steve Levy declined to include in his proposed 2010 budget.

Supervising District Court Judge Madeline Fitzgibbon, in a move legislative officials said has little precedent, wrote to County Legislature Presiding Officer William Lindsay (D-Holbrook) asking...

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