Liberty City Six: No verdict yet, and the government has spent millions (Sun-Sentinel)

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By Vanessa Blum | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
8:15 PM EDT, May 6, 2009

... At least $5 million, and likely $10 million or more -- according to a Sun Sentinel analysis of court records and government files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act ...

"That is an extraordinary amount of money spent on a single case," said law professor Michael Seigel of the University of Florida, a former federal prosecutor ...

"What a shameful waste of our taxes at the worst possible time," Michael Tein said. "Just think what $10 million could have done for our schoolchildren in Liberty City" ...

Among the payments by federal prosecutors is $95,755.79 to Varinsky Associates, a California-based jury consulting firm.The government also paid more than $11,000 to a Fort Lauderdale manufacturer of visual aides and more than $57,000 to court reporters for transcripts, according to the records ...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-liberty-city-six-costs-f050609,0,1706368.story

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1. And the idiots would spend twice as much to get a guilty verdict. That's why this judge won't let

it be the third mistrial.