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Indigent Defense in Georgia

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I'm going to start a string of state legislative roundup items with news from Georgia.  Bill Rankin reports, "Defender authority may change," in Monday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Frustrated with an outspoken and critical Georgia public defender council, influential state lawmakers are moving to strip the council?s board of its authority. Legislation introduced Friday by state Sen. Preston Smith (R-Rome) would turn over control of the state defender system to its director. The council?s board, which sets policy and makes key financial decisions, would become ?advisory.? Senate Bill 42 also would rename the council ?- now the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council ?- the Georgia Public Defender Agency...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).