During testimony in the Chamise Cubbison case, Judge Ann Moorman asked the key investigator in the case if county taxpayers were out a single dime paying for the extra work that all parties agree that Paula June Kennedy did over the three-year period of the pandemic. Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Porter was startled by the forceful delivery of the judge’s question and quietly responded “no’. Documented costs to move the case to its current point are nearly twice the disputed amount in extra pay cited almost a year and a half ago by DA David Eyster when he filed charges against Kennedy and Cubbison. That does not begin to also include the cost of investigative and court services and the cost of a public defender for Kennedy and does not begin to estimate the cost of civil litigation undertaken by Cubbison if her case succeeds. The preliminary hearing as to whether Judge Ann Moorman will dismiss the case or bind it over for trial resumes on the 24th.