The cost to taxpayers is expected to grow substantially as each of five separate groups of defendants stands trial on charges of participating in a hostage-taking and uprising at Delaware's maximum-security prison last year, during which a prison guard was killed.
Jury selection in the trial of the first four defendants begins Monday.
The defense costs are in addition to $7.55 million state officials paid to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of six Department of Correction employees and relatives of slain officer Steven Floyd.
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