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A Roundup of Cost Items

By Steve Hall

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Chicago Public Radio station WBEZ-FM reports, "Cook County Attorneys Running Out of Money to Try Death Penalty Cases," produced by Tony Arnold Defense attorneys and prosecutors with Cook County are running out of money to defend cases involving the death penalty. County commissioners are scheduled to talk about the issue at today's board meeting. Pat Reardon is with the public defender's office. He says the State of Illinois is behind in paying nearly $6 million to the courts related to death penalty cases.And:Reardon says his office alone has about 120 death penalty cases pending.A spokesman with the Cook County Treasurer's office says the public defender has $150 left in its account to handle the cases.Cost was a factor in "Judge Asks U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 18, 2010 (boomark / email).

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