You could feed close to 3,400 elderly folks through the Meals on Wheels program for a month. That's exactly how much attorneys, the judge and the Citrus County spent on the John Couey murder trial. Public records requests to all agencies in the case, including the State Attorney's Office, the Public Defender's Office, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office and Clerk's Office, and the 5th Judicial Circuit Administration, indicate costs totaled $573,566.
65. Looking from the outside in, the more than half-million dollar price tag seems like too much, but to those close to the case, the money was well spent. "I guess the best way to put it into perspective is to ask them [the public] the question: 'How much is your kid's life worth?
How much money should our office have had to spend to make sure your child's killer was brought to justice?
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