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Atlanta's alt-weekly Creative Loafing has the article, "Brian Nichols and Georgia's Indigent Defense Crisis," reported by Three times last year Atlanta death-penalty lawyer Tom West faced judges with the exact same complaint: The state had stopped paying his fees to represent an indigent client and had failed to provide money for the experts he needed to provide a defense. In all three cases, West asked for a delay until the state's capital-defense fund gained financial footing. In one, the judge promised to make sure West was paid. In another, the judge ordered the state to pay for his experts but didn't address the issue of West's fees. And in the third, the judge replaced West with two public defenders. Those cases are now at a legal standstill...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 27, 2008 (boomark / email).