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Judge: Prosecutors Drove Costs of Ga. Capital Case

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That's the title of an AP dispatch filed from the ABA Annual Meeting.  LINK  It appears via the Fulton County Daily Report.The retired judge who stepped down from the Atlanta courthouse killings case said Saturday that prosecutors share the blame for the high cost and delays in the death penalty proceeding only now going to trial. Prosecutors could have scaled down their case against Brian Nichols without compromising it, said Hilton Fuller, a retired state Superior Court judge from suburban Atlanta. The Nichols trial should be used to shine a light on how the prosecution's case affects the cost of an adequate defense in death penalty cases, Fuller told an American Bar Association panel on capital cases. "There's a relationship between what the prosecution spends and what the defense needs," Fuller said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).