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More on Phan v. The State

By Steve Hall

Law.com's Fulton County Daily Report today carries, "Ga. Capital Case Revives Controversy Over State's Public Defender System."  It's written by Janet L. Conley. It's a must-read for those following Georgia's indigent defense crisis.In an opinion that once again raises concerns about the state's shortage of funds for indigent capital defense, a divided Georgia Supreme Court has sent a death penalty case back to the trial court to determine if a systemic breakdown in the state's public defender system deprived the defendant of counsel. If the lower court finds that there was a systemic breakdown affecting this particular defendant, an indigent Vietnamese immigrant who allegedly killed another Vietnamese man and his 2-year-old son and severely injured the man's wife in execution-style, back-of-the-head shootings, Justice Harold D...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).