While a convicted defendant can be sentenced to pay the costs of the prosecution and trial, those costs do not include the salaries of the assistant district attorneys and county detectives for the hours they worked the case, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
The unanimous court in Commonwealth v. Garzone upheld the Superior Court’s ruling limiting the costs brothers and funeral home directors Louis and Gerald Garzone had to pay related to their trial for illegally harvesting and selling body parts.
