Clerk: Funding For Anthony Trial In 'Serious Jeopardy' - WKMG

by mom_in_il Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:22 pm

Clerk: Funding For Anthony Trial In 'Serious Jeopardy'
Judge Says Clerk's Statements Are Premature

POSTED: Thursday, March 17, 2011
UPDATED: 4:36 pm EDT March 17, 2011

Excerpt:

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Faced with a proposed 5 percent cut in its current budget, the Orange County Clerk of Courts said on Thursday that funding for the Casey Anthony murder trial is in “serious jeopardy.”

Clerk of Courts spokeswoman Lydia Gardner told Local 6 the office does not know how it would pay its share of the $360,000 in estimated trial costs if, as the Florida Senate is proposing, it loses 5 percent of its budget in the final quarter of this fiscal year, which runs from May through July 2011.

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