THE GUARDIAN has found out via public records the prosecution of Marc Young in the Kiddie Porn matter will cost Canyon County taxpayers a lot of money. We find out now the money paid to Mr. Young for staying home on administrative leave and collecting vacation pay while not working may be the tip of the iceberg before all of this is over.
Canyon County Prosecutor, Dave Young,conflicted out of the case against his son Marc to the Idaho Attorney Generals Office. The AG is charging Canyon County for all expenses and costs related to the prosecution. This past week a Canyon County check in the amount of $13,156.00 was sent to the AG's office for expenses to date. They have not yet even gone to trial and we are down this amount of money! The amount that will eventually be paid to prosecute Mr. Young will make the administrative leave costs look like chump change before all of this is said and done.
The Attorney General prosecutorial efforts will really get expensive if the change of venue to Lewiston is granted by the judge. Hotels, meals, travel, and other assorted expenses will be added to the costs that are already mounting in this case each day it drags toward the final verdict.
The County Info person Angie Sollonis has put the spin on this cost as pretty much a push. If the AG didn't do it, then the county would have incurred the same resource costs. You can be the judge of this logic. Bottom line is that the costs for this will be added to the county expenses, the in house prosecution would have been a null event.
There was not a lot of choice regarding conflicting the case out of the county prosecutors office due to the relationship of the defendant to his father, the Canyon County Prosecutor.
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