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NYT: Man held 8 months without counsel in DP case sues Georgia to get a lawyer

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

A Georgia man in jail for eight months without counsel in a death penalty case sued the State of Georgia for representation. See NYTimes Friday: Long Held in Capital Case, Man Sues to Get a Lawyer: A man awaiting trial in a Georgia prison has spent the last eight months without a lawyer while prosecutors prepare a death penalty case against him, a lawsuit brought on his behalf says. The suit, filed for Jamie R. Weis by four Atlanta lawyers, calls the lapse in legal representation “an unprecedented deprivation of counsel in modern times.” It names as defendants two leaders of Georgia’s public defender system. “There’s nothing more fundamental and more important to somebody facing the death penalty than adequate counsel,” said one of the lawyers, Stephen B...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on January 03, 2009 (boomark / email).