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A Snapshot of Indigent Defense in Georgia

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"Death case defendant sues for lack of lawyers," is Bill Rankin's report from the January 1 issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.A murder defendant who says it is ?unconscionable? for him to have been denied legal representation for eight months is suing the head of the state?s public defender system. ?This is surely an unprecedented deprivation of counsel in modern times,? said the lawsuit, filed Wednesday for Jamie Ryan Weis by four prominent Atlanta lawyers. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Weis for the Feb. 2, 2006, killing of Catherine King in her Pike County home. Since April, Weis has been sitting in jail awaiting trial without lawyers to represent him. The lawsuit was filed after trial judge Johnnie Caldwell scheduled a Jan...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).