The Southern Center for Human Rights on Wednesday said it has sued the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, asking for an injunction to stop the council from closing the Metro Conflict Defender Office, which provides criminal defense lawyers for more than 1,800 indigent clients.
The suit, filed in Fulton County Superior Court, claims that the closure, set for June 30, would violate clients’ state and federal constitutional rights to counsel. A proposed class action, the case was brought specifically on behalf of four of the Metro Conflict Defender Office’s 17 lawyers and some of their clients. Stephen B. Bright and Brooke M. Sealy from the Southern Center represent the proposed class, along with Edward T. M. Garland and Donald F. Samuel of Garland, Samuel & Loeb and Ralph I. Knowles of Doffermyre Shields Canfield Knowles & Devine.
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