Judge Constance C. Russell of Fulton County Superior Court didn’t like the answer she received from the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council last spring when she wondered why Darryl White, an indigent man convicted of murder, had not been assigned a lawyer for his appeal.
Russell wrote that “the Court has been advised that Mr. White is number 105 on the Council’s backlog list awaiting appointment of counsel. The Council is unable to even estimate when Mr. White is likely to be appointed counsel.”
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