TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The total cost to defend three border activists ultimately convicted of killing a southern Arizona man and his young daughter was more than $951,000. That makes it one of the costliest in Pima County’s history.
The Arizona Daily Star (http://bit.ly/pRZZ2f) reports that the only defendant to avoid death row accounted for 45 percent of the total expenses, and the six attorneys assigned to the cases received roughly $500,000.
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