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A small miracle in Georgia for the indigents’ defense bar

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Sherri Jefferson, whose story we brought to you last fall, won near miraculously in the Georgia Supreme Court today. In the world of turmoil that has enveloped the Georgia indigents’ defense bar in recent month this is somewhere between good & great news. As way of background Jefferson Jefferson, then an Assistant Public Defender in the Brunswick Judicial District, was sentenced to thirty (yes 30) days for her conduct in a delinquency hearing. As I noted back then “Granted, contempt happens. Granted, trial courts sometimes do wacky things. Granted, finding a public defender in contempt won’t get it noted here, or much of anywhere, as rarely are such findings upheld on appeal.” The intermediate appellate courts in Georgia upheld contempt for some rather tepid comments Jefferson made to protect, in her mind, her client’s rights...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).