Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 015 - Attorney General
Sub-Agency 0011 - Special Prosecution Account
Chapter 2 - SPECIAL PROSECUTION ACCOUNT
Section 2-3 - Definitions

(a) "Special Prosecution Account," or "SPA," is the account established by Senate Enrolled Act 102 of the Fifty-Eighth Wyoming Legislature, from which money will be disbursed to counties to fulfill the purpose of the Act.

(b) "Extraordinary actual costs of prosecution" and "unusually expensive," as that term relates to "extraordinary actual costs of prosecution," mean actual costs of prosecution in a particular criminal case that exceed, to a pronounced degree, a level of costs that would normally be expected in a felony case that is subject to trial before a jury.

(c) "Supporting budget information" means, in the context of a prosecuting attorney's written application for disbursement of funds from the SPA, such detailed information from the prosecuting attorney's operating budget as will give the Attorney General, in his judgment, a reasonably accurate picture of the prosecuting attorney's current and future budget status as it relates to his ability to effectively prosecute the case in question, and will allow the Attorney General to make informed decisions as between competing requests.

(d) "Actual prosecution expenses" and "actual costs of prosecution" mean all actual, necessary, and appropriate expenses of prosecution of an eligible criminal case including, but not limited to, expenses associated with lay and expert witnesses, travel, sequestration of a jury, scientific testing and analysis, and temporary personnel expenses related to the case. It does not include ordinary and routine expenses of the prosecuting attorney's office that exist independently of the prosecution of the case in question.

(e) "Projected costs of prosecution" means such "actual prosecution expenses" as defined in subsection (d) above, as are reasonably anticipated by the prosecuting attorney to be required in the future to take a particular criminal case to trial. It does not include ordinary and routine expenses of the prosecuting attorney's office that exist independently of the prosecution of the case in question.