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State PD Woes Go to the High Court

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That's the title of Alyson Palmer's article for today's Fulton County Daily Report.  LINKResponsibility for handling financial struggles of the state's public defender system shifted from the General Assembly to the Supreme Court of Georgia for 40 minutes on Monday. Although a justice warned a lawyer not to engage in a policy debate, the oral argument often reflected a familiar dilemma faced by budget writers: Who is responsible?the state or the counties?for paying attorneys for indigent criminal defendants? The case before the high court dealt with matters that were going on before the January 2005 launch of the statewide public defender system that was to relieve counties of the burden of paying for indigent defense.The court on Monday also heard two tort cases that have drawn the attention of trial lawyer and chiropractor groups, plus a fourth case that could impact real estate investment in the state...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).