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ACS Blog Post on Georgia Indigent Defense

By Steve Hall

E. Wycliffe Orr, Sr. posts, "Georgia?s Indefensible Indigent Defense System ? A Defense in Name Only?" at the ACS blog.  He's a lawyer, former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, and has served on the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council.  It's a must-read: Jamie Ryan Weis has been held in county jails in Georgia for over four years. Weis has not been found guilty of any crime. He has not had a trial. Although he is charged with murder and the prosecution is seeking the death penalty, during all but some six months of the time he has been held, he has not had active legal representation because the State of Georgia has failed to provide funding for his defense. I, along with several distinguished members of the Georgia bar, including former Chief Justice Norman Fletcher, the former chair of the Chief Justice's Commission on Indigent Defense, two former chairs of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, and current and former members of the Council, some of whom were state legislators and one of whom is a county attorney, have filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to grant review of the Weis case and prohibit prosecutors from taking advantage of Georgia's leaving Weis defenseless for so long...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 21, 2010 (boomark / email).