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More on the Weis Case in Georgia

By Steve Hall

Marcia Coyle writes, "Ga. Murder Case Shines Spotlight on Nation's Indigent Defense Systems."  Jamie Weis, accused in 2006 of killing an elderly neighbor, had two state-appointed lawyers defending him from capital murder charges for more than a year. When the state of Georgia ran out of money to pay them, the trial judge removed them, appointing public defenders who spent nearly two years trying to withdraw. Weis, in county jail now for four years, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to delve into what he claims is a breakdown of Georgia's public defender system.Weis wants the justices to make clear that "lawyers are not fungible," said lead counsel Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).