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Indigent Defense Roundup

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Following Walter Mondale's OpEd, it's appropriate that there is indigent defense news today from Georgia and Kentucky."Public defender's office ordered to pay lawyers," is Bill Rankin's report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a long-running, closely watched Georgia case.  The Georgia State Supreme Court ruling is here.The Georgia Supreme Court Monday agreed the state public defender council should be found in contempt for refusing to pay lawyers in a death-penalty case. In a unanimous decision, the court found that the cash-strapped Georgia Public Defender Standards Council must pay $68,946 to Augusta lawyers Michael Garrett and Randolph Frails for defending Willie Palmer.Two years ago, Palmer was sentenced to death for the September 1995 killing his estranged wife and his 15-year-old stepdaughter...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).