Being innocent can be expensive

According to this quite interesting article on the misconduct of prosecutor Nifong and the MSM in the Duke "rape" case, the cost of defending against false charges is quite high:

For the past 10 months, the defendants’ families each have paid $80 thousand a month for the legal services of the various attorneys representing them.

UPDATE: Dorothy Rabinowitz compares the Nifong scandal to the child-abuse case scandals of the 80's and 90's.