Lindsay Lohan has been in court many times and it costs taxpayers millions of dollars.
California-based civil law trial attorney David Wohl told FOX411’s Pop Tarts, “It has been four years, and we’re talking about quite a few county law enforcement professionals, so it is probably safe to say several million dollars."
Criminal Defense Attorney RJ Manuelian said “Each court hearing can take hours of prosecutorial time, judicial time and judicial staff such as a court clerk, stenographer and bailiffs in the courtroom protecting Lindsay. If only 100 hours total was spent on her first DUI case out of the Beverly Hills Courthouse, you’re talking about a minimum of $10,000 just in prosecutorial/attorney time alone. Multiply that by the number of cases she has and you'll see that the Lohan case is costing this state tens of thousands of dollars".
"The irony is, that the further Ms. Lohan is prosecuted ‘in the interest of justice,’ injustice is done to our state economy."
"What makes matters worse is that Ms. Lohan is still facing a possible probation violation from Judge Fox's court in Beverly Hills. If she goes to jail, that adds more financial burden to our state's financial crises and it burdens our already overcrowded jails. In the end – more money we don't have. Scott Peterson's trial cost the state over $3 million, and Lohan’s latest case certainly has the potential to reach hundreds of thousands of dollars should it go to trial.”
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