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Indigent Defense Round-Up

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the editorial, "Indigent Defense: System is unfairly under attack."Those without economic or political influence, including indigents accused of crimes and those who represent them, will always be convenient targets for those seeking easy political profit. Such is the case with Sen. Preston Smith's column, which unfairly and inaccurately criticizes Georgia's public defender system and its governing board, the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council ("Public defender system out of control," @issue, June 12). A few facts are in order. Smith writes that "since 2005, state funds to the Council have increased 36 percent." He omits the fact that the Council, first created by 2003 legislation, was not operational until the second half of the 2005 fiscal year...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 17, 2008 (boomark / email).