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Muzikman...what would we do without you?!!!!:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:
Glad to see your thoughts on this. Thought I was the only one who thought RH's estimate of $100,000 for defense costs in this trial were extremely low.....
I wanna give you all a little insight to Deposition costs. I just had a deposition take place for one of my cases last week. I just now got the bill for said SINGLE deposition. The entire total was $2,683.99.
And that was just for one single deposition. For only one day. Sometimes some depos can be taken over a period of days.
And the defense MUST take a deposition of every state witness. Their witness list is 100+. You do the math. The FL taxpayers are going to pay a lot for Casey's costs for her defense.
And don't even get me started about how much experts can cost ....
Why would a one day deposition for one person cost this much? I have no knowledge of how or why it cost more than a $5 recorder with a $2 tape inserted in it.. Then possibly paying someone to type the transcript...paper $4 ink $40.... Where the heck is all this money coming into play?
Can you break down what the costs are?
Wow. A year and a half has passed. They'll be doing depos now. In all this time why haven't more been already done? Ridiculous!
I can sure see why some states don't have the death penalty. We don't have it in Wisconsin.
Well if her expenses are to be met by the State do they have to operate within a budget or just get an open check book to depose any and everyone they want, get expert opinions all over the place until they find one they agree with....?
We flip-flop her in Cali, but it's a waste of time and money since we rarely execute. Most die of old age or end up with a commuted sentence down the road. Huge waste of taxpayers money. DP is no deterrant to capital offenses. Only swift justice does that and sadly we are not designed for it.
Does FL have automatic appeals in DP convictions like Cali does? I'm interested because can you imagine if the taxplayers of FL have to pay for KC defense and then if she gets DP they would have to pay for her appeal as well.....
Does anyone know (sorry if I missed it in the thread) when the depos are set? As opposed to when KC will be "ruled" indigent? Is that how it works? I'm wondering if the dates set are after a date where the official indigent status would take place. I'm sure you get my drift.
Why would a one day deposition for one person cost this much? I have no knowledge of how or why it cost more than a $5 recorder with a $2 tape inserted in it.. Then possibly paying someone to type the transcript...paper $4 ink $40.... Where the heck is all this money coming into play?
Can you break down what the costs are?
Well if her expenses are to be met by the State do they have to operate within a budget or just get an open check book to depose any and everyone they want, get expert opinions all over the place until they find one they agree with....?
Why would a one day deposition for one person cost this much? I have no knowledge of how or why it cost more than a $5 recorder with a $2 tape inserted in it.. Then possibly paying someone to type the transcript...paper $4 ink $40.... Where the heck is all this money coming into play?
Can you break down what the costs are?
Wow. A year and a half has passed. They'll be doing depos now. In all this time why haven't more been already done? Ridiculous!
I think it was a smart move by the defense to wait on these depo's until the SA turned over all discovery. They can do depo's now knowing everything the state knows. Moreover, they can have the state pay for it. Probably Al's doing. It may be as simple as they just didn't have the money to do the depo's in the past. Now it begins, they have deposed 3 investigators as of today. IMO
http://www.wesh.com/news/22786842/detail.html
I think it was a smart move by the defense to wait on these depo's until the SA turned over all discovery. They can do depo's now knowing everything the state knows. Moreover, they can have the state pay for it. Probably Al's doing. It may be as simple as they just didn't have the money to do the depo's in the past. Now it begins, they have deposed 3 investigators as of today. IMO
http://www.wesh.com/news/22786842/detail.html
They couldn't do depos with 110 thousand dollars? On what planet?
A court reporter actually types the deposition and later it has to be transcribed. The reporters type in code and must attend classes to learn how to do this as the words are not entirely typed out. Once it is transcribed you can read it. Not everyone is can do this type of work that is why they are paid well.