Robert “Rob” Catron was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence and $7,500 in fines for his involvement in a petition scandal during Scott Taylor’s 2018 campaign for a second term in Congress.
For decades, localities have pumped money into prosecutors' offices, allowing commonwealth’s attorneys to get higher salaries, more attorneys and paralegals. But officials haven’t done the same for public defenders, leading to widening pay gaps between the two sides of the courtroom.