Taxpayers have shelled out nearly $1 million to cover defense lawyers and expert witnesses since the Bloods thug’s death sentence was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in February 2011.
Ronell Wilson was sentenced to death by lethal injection by a Brooklyn jury for the execution-style killings of hero undercovers Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin. The sentence was overturned due to prosecutorial error and sent back for re-sentencing.
Re-sentencing gangster Ronell Wilson for killing two NYPD detectives could push Brooklyn federal court over the fiscal cliff.
Taxpayers have shelled out nearly $1 million to cover defense lawyers and expert witnesses since the Bloods thug’s death sentence was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in February 2011.
The $965,000 tab is expected to grow by several hundred thousand dollars because invoices have not been submitted for a hearing that ended Thursday to determine whether Wilson is mentally disabled, the Daily News has learned.
Six shrinks, whose travel and lodgings were paid for by the government, testified for Wilson.
“The amount of money being spent is crazy,” said a source close to the case.
Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis is signing checks to cover defense costs, while the prosecutors’ costs are picked up by the U.S. Justice Department.
The psychiatric experts charge roughly $250 to $350 per hour for court work, sources said.
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