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Georgia Indigent Defense Update

By Steve Hall

Today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, "Defender agency seeks special session for funds."  It's by Bill Rankin. Gov. Sonny Perdue will consider a request by the state?s public defender agency to call a special session of the Legislature to deal with the system's ongoing funding problems. At a meeting last month, the agency?s board voted to ask for the special session after hearing lawyers for its capital defender program say they were on the brink of being unable to provide constitutionally adequate representation of their clients. The lawyers told the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council's board that there were not enough defenders available to handle all the new death cases. State law requires a capital defendant receive the representation of two experienced lawyers...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).