Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2011 by Carol J. Williams
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/dec/29/local/la-me-death-sentences-dr
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“It would be stunning if prosecutors were not impacted by these developments. The financial issues just have to weigh significantly in some cases because prosecutors, defense lawyers and everyone involved in
government in California has had to make extraordinarily difficult choices about how to spend the resources they have, and they are well aware of what capital cases cost,” said Elisabeth Semel, a UC Berkeley law professor and founder of the school’s Death Penalty Clinic.