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GA: PD conflicts budget out of money

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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Georgia public defense budget has run out of money, according to the AJC: In Georgia, lawyers abandoning the poor. Down into the story: In response, exasperated lawyers are asking to withdraw from cases, and judges are letting them do it. Making matters worse, no one is telling the council about these defendants who are now lawyerless, the council’s executive director, Mack Crawford, said. The council has already been hit with one lawsuit, filed in Elbert County. It says hundreds of indigent defendants unable to afford their own lawyers are not being provided representation as required by law.

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).

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