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Tax dollars to help defend Florida mother accused of drowning autistic son By Associated Press Alejandro Ripley and Patricia Ripley (Courtesy: Miami-Dade Police Department/Miami-Dade Department of Corrections) Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Daryl Trawick ruled in an order released Thursday that Patricia Ripley, 46, is indigent for certain costs that include depositions, private investigators and experts who specialize in trying to keep defendants off Florida’s Death Row, the Miami Herald reported. Similar death penalty cases have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in experts, investigators and other expenses. Prosecutors objected, pointing out that her family owns an expensive home in South Florida and land in the Dominican Republic.

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