Excellent questions, Smooth. I would also like to know if jude knows of any cap or maximum dollar amount that exists with the NCIS.
He does not know of any cap on $$$. However, if someone is able to spend a million, that absolutely dwarfs anything the defense can ever hope to come up with.
And if the investigators are not neutral, looking hard to exhonerate soldiers, then they are an arm of the prosecution, and their expenses should be counted as prosection expenditures.