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Georgia Attorneys Abandoning Indigent Defendants
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2009
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2009, page 36
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Attorneys,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Appointment of Counsel,
Public Defenders.
Location:
Georgia.
For almost 50 years, following the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, criminal defendants have had a constitutional right to legal representation. However, Georgia lawmakers have decided that as a result of the state’s budget shortfall and cuts to public defender services, the right ...
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