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"Georgia public defender system in tug-of-war," is the AP report via Law.com's Fulton County Daily Report.Georgia's ailing public defender system, once praised as a national model for providing legal representation to poor defendants, is now in a legal tug-of-war with critics who say it has failed to live up to its promise. Lagging support from Georgia legislators and rounds of budget cuts have already led the system's director to scale back programs and fire dozens of staffers. But it was the decision in June to close the 21-member Metro Atlanta Conflict Defender Office that triggered the legal battle. Critics sued the system's director. They will ask a Fulton County judge Thursday to force the office to stay open, arguing that the system is undergoing a "Walmartization" by firing full-time attorneys and replacing them with contract attorneys...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).