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The Legacy of the Brian Nichols Trial

By Steve Hall

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Today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution carries the report, "Murderer Nichol?s tab: $3 million and growing," written by Rhonda Cook and Steve Visser. Here's an extended excerpt: It cost more than more $3 million to give courthouse killer Brian Nichols a fair trial. The state paid about $2.3 million of the cost, while Fulton County paid about $625,000, according to records released Tuesday. Mike Mears, a veteran death penalty lawyer who initially oversaw payments to the defense, said costs should not have exceeded $500,000. He blamed them on Senior Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller, who he said refused to rein in excessive defense spending in the trial?s early stages. ?It was a Cadillac defense,? said Mears, who was director of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council at the time...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).

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