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lawyerless defendants file suit in Georgia

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via StandDown: “Lawyerless defendants file lawsuit,” is Bill Rankin’s report in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A lawsuit filed Tuesday calls for prosecutions to be halted against a number of northeast Georgia defendants until they are provided lawyers to represent them. The lawsuit, filed in Elbert County Superior Court, says hundreds of defendants unable to afford their own lawyers are not being provided representation as required under law. If lawyers for the defendants are not provided, their cases should be dismissed, the suit says. The lawsuit highlights the funding problems plaguing the state defender system. In the five-county Northern Judicial Circuit, three lawyers were paid $129,166 to handle ?conflict? cases in fiscal 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 08, 2009 (boomark / email).