If Agatha Christie had written the recent history of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, which oversees the state of Georgia’s indigent criminal defense system, she probably would have titled it “Kidnapping and Murder at the Georgia Capitol.”
For what is transpiring under the Gold Dome in Atlanta is nothing short of a homicide of hope-of the dreams and aspirations of supporters of the Georgia and federal constitutions that took decades to achieve but is taking only a couple of years to destroy and dismember, at great cost to the state. And nothing illustrates this murder-in-the-making better than Gov. Sonny Perdue’s recently released proposed fiscal year 2010 Georgia budget, aided and abetted by the Legislature’s continuing sabotage against the very system it created just six short years ago.
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