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Georgia legislators adjourned on Thursday, leaving only five days remaining in the the state legislative session.  They will take a week off and convene next Thursday, March 27.  The Georgia General Assembly website is here. The Fulton County Daily Report carries an AP dispatch, "Ga. lawmakers eye sweeping changes to public defender system."It's easy to peg the vast changes to the state's public defender system as a response to Georgia's plodding case against accused courthouse gunman Brian Nichols. But the Senate made clear Thursday that the frustration with the ambitious statewide program is rooted much deeper than the costly Nichols trial. The chamber's 38-11 vote would shift some of the system's costs to local governments, bar senior judges from hearing death penalty cases and give public defenders more time before visiting indigent suspects...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).