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It's hard to know what Graham's legal costs were. In the possible criminal case, which went only as far as the grand jury, there is no discoverable evidence provided to the prospective defendant and therefore little basis for which a defense attorney could draw fees. I wouldn't expect the criminal defense fees to be terribly substantial.
As far as the civil trial fees, it's even harder to know, because there are a lot of variables we simply don't know. For one, we don't really know how vigorous the case presented by the plaintiffs was. From what little was in the news clip above, the plaintiffs' case seems to have consisted of a few character witnesses and possibly one forensic expert (though we don't know if the forensic expert testified for the plaintiffs or the defense). In all honesty, it doesn't sound like the plaintiffs were represented by terribly effective or competent counsel, and this would help keep Graham's legal expenses to a minimum. If you aren't engaged in a duel of expen$ive experts and tons of discovery materials going in each direction, the legal costs might not range into the staggering range.
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