So do you think we can use this the next time the defense starts talking about how handicapped they are next to the "limitless resources of the State"?

Twice as much goes to defend suspects than to prosecute them

BOSTON- Taxpayers are spending more than twice as much to defend murderers than to prosecute them as the budget to hire court-appointed lawyers for flat-broke suspects spirals out of control.

A Herald investigation shows half a billion taxpayer dollars have been lavished on private attorneys to defend killers, rapists and other indigent suspects over the past five years - even as worried district attorneys are slashing budgets in the face of declining state revenues.

Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O�Keefe, head of the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association, said underpaid prosecutors who make "less than some janitors" in the courthouses must face private defense lawyers pulling down $100 an hour in taxpayer money for murder cases.