Cost to Arizona taxpayers for Jodi Arias' defense tops $2.7 million, expected to keep rising
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The cost to Arizona taxpayers for Jodi Arias' defense now tops $2.7 million, and the figure will keep rising as her penalty phase retrial continues in a Phoenix courtroom.
Maricopa County spokeswoman Cari Gerchick released Thursday the amount billed so far by Arias' two court-appointed attorneys after she was unable to pay for her own defense. The figure is up more than $200,000 from the one released in late September.
Prosecutors have declined to provide their costs to try the case.
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Arias was convicted of murder last year in the 2008 killing of ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander but jurors were unable to agree on a sentence.
A new jury is hearing testimony on whether to grant prosecutors' request for the death penalty. Otherwise, Arias will face life in prison.