TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Oct 21, 2015

The new rape trial for former Vanderbilt football players Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg will cost taxpayers an estimated $74,000, WSMV reports. The Davidson County trial courts administrator based that figure on the costs of bringing a jury from Chattanooga and sequestering jurors for two weeks. The new trial was supposed to begin Nov. 30, but Judge Monte Watkins decided earlier this week to move it to March or April.