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An Update on Indigent Defense in Georgia

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"?Crisis? in death-penalty trial system," is Bill Rankin's report in the Sunday edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.They involve some of Georgia?s most heinous slayings, with death-penalty defendants accused of massacres, child killings, crimes of unthinkable depravity. Yet almost one in five of all pending capital cases statewide is stalled because there is no money to pay for the defense of the accused. Judges and prosecutors are exasperated. Defense attorneys are filing contempt motions and asking to withdraw from their cases. ?It?s a constitutional crisis,? Forsyth Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Bagley said at a recent hearing for Frank Ortegon Jr., accused of a murderous rampage at a farmhouse three years ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).