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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Funding woes delay Nichols trial

Jury selection in a high-profile murder trial has been pushed back another two weeks. Jury selection in the Brian Nichols case was supposed to begin Monday. It is now scheduled to begin October 15th. Today Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller blamed funding shortages for the delay. Nichols is accused of killing four people in March 2005 during a shooting spree that began at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta. The trial has already cost $2 million dollars and fueled a debate over Georgia’s public defense spending.

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