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Indigent Defense Crisis Continues in Georgia

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Bill Rankin writes, "In Georgia, lawyers abandoning the poor," in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Across Georgia, poor people accused of crimes are being abandoned by their lawyers because there is no money to pay their legal fees. There are also 10 death-penalty cases proceeding to trial with $1.1 million in expected billings. But there is no money to pay for those cases, either.At its Tuesday meeting, the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council?s board grappled with a familiar problem ? a mountainous stockpile of unpaid bills. Just a few weeks ago, the council?s board was on the legislative endangered list. Influential lawmakers, irritated by some board members? complaints about inadequate funding, pushed legislation to strip the board of its authority...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).