Brian Nichols - 2 million dollars and growing

Many folks may be familiar with the name Brian Nichols and for those that aren't he is the guy who while being on trial for the rape of a woman managed to over power a 50 year old female sheriffs deputy and go on a killing spree which included a court reporter, a judge, another deputy and federal immigration agent before finally surrendering after holing up inside of Ashley Smith's apartment. All of this happened in March of 2005.
While here in Atlanta he still has not been brought to trial for these killings mostly because of the manuevering of the judge appointed to ironically replace the judge who was killed. It seems this judge has an aversion to the death penalty and in an effort to make the cost of the trial so expensive that the prosecutors will drop the death penalty has been allowing millions of dollars of taxpayer funds be spent on his defense as well as granting one delay after another.

Arguing that the Nichols case was extraordinary, Fuller ordered early on that Nichols would be represented by four lawyers, instead of the usual two for death penalty cases. He also ordered that several of the lawyers would be paid higher rates than the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council typically pays in indigent cases.

Well folks are getting fed up and now there is a movement to get this judge removed.