Lake Oswego Library Book Thief Doesn't Have to Pay Lawyer

A man convicted to stealing books from the Lake Oswego Library and selling them won't have to pay court-appointed lawyer.

That's the word from the Oregon Court of Appeals.

They were ruling in the case of Bill Joe Davis, who was conceited in 2013 for stealing not only from the Lake Oswego Library but from the libraries in Happy Valley, Milwaukie, and West Linn.

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Davis was hoping to get the conviction overturned and argued he shouldn't have to pay the $510 the judge imposed as a fee to his court appointed lawyer.

The Court of Appeals agreed with Davis that the judge should have first determined if he able to pay, which he did not.

The conviction, though, was upheld.

Davis had tried to argue that prosecutors had been wrong to introduce a previous conviction for stealing books from the library in Tigard.

While the judges agreed that conviction should have been inadmissible, they concluded it didn't make a difference.

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