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"Nichols case has system in bind; Twists, turns and lawsuits cause expenses to mount and give fuel to political fights over funding for indigent defendants"

"Nichols case has system in bind; Twists, turns and lawsuits cause expenses to mount and give fuel to political fights over funding for indigent defendants": Today's edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contains an article that begins, "The destruction caused by the Brian Nichols case has gone beyond the four people he killed and beyond the five he carjacked. It's also gone beyond the people he assaulted in the hours between his unprecedented escape from the Fulton County Courthouse on a windy Friday morning and his surrender 26 hours later at a Duluth apartment complex. Those 26 hours three-and-a-half years ago may have been the death-knell of Georgia's then-newly created system to eliminate inequities in a hodgepodge of indigent defense systems."

Full post as published by How Appealing on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).