The Georgia Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to a lower court’s order mandating that convicted indigent criminal defendants be provided conflict-free lawyers to handle their appeals within 30 days of having requested a new attorney.
The high court’s unanimous decision not to hear the case lets stand a February order by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry W. Baxter in Flournoy v. State, a class action brought last year by lawyers representing nearly 200 inmates who had not been assigned attorneys to handle their appeals, and some of whom had been in jail for several years after requesting an appeals lawyer. The suit, filed by the Southern Center for Human Rights and lawyers with several other Atlanta firms, sought to have new lawyers assigned in cases where the inmates claimed ineffective assistance of counsel.
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