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Tab for Death Penalty Cases Nears $ 1 Million

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That's the title of an article in New Hampshire's Manchester Union-Leader, reported by Tom Fahey.  LINKThe state will come close to spending $1 million on the two death-penalty cases it is prosecuting. A request for $482,000 that comes before the Legislative Fiscal Committee this week will bring to $902,000 the total amount that Attorney General Kelly Ayotte has sought in special expenses for the cases. She expects the money to take her through June 2009. She has brought capital murder cases against Michael Addison, charged in the murder of Manchester Police Office Michael Briggs, and businessman James Brooks, charged with killing Derry trash man Jack Reid Sr. The cases come to a head this summer, with the capital murder case against Brooks in August, followed by the start-up a month later of the trial of Addison...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).