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Adam Liptak on Georgia Indigent Defense

By Steve Hall

His Sidebar column in today's New York Times is, "Defendants Squeezed by Georgia?s Tight Budget."  Here's the opening: When the State of Georgia ran out of money to pay the lawyers for a man facing the death penalty, the prosecutor, of all people, had an idea. He asked the judge to appoint two overworked public defenders instead, identifying them by name. The judge went along. The Georgia Supreme Court, by a 4-to-3 vote, endorsed the arrangement in March, saying the defendant, Jamie R. Weis, should have accepted the new lawyers to help solve the state?s budget impasse. The adversary system does not ordinarily let prosecutors pick their opponents. Indeed, most states do not allow established relationships between lawyers and their clients to be interrupted for any but the most exceptional reasons...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).