A day-long hearing in Zebulon this week illustrated the financial problems facing the state’s beleaguered public defender system.
At issue was an order by a Pike County Superior Court judge who in 2007 removed the two lawyers representing an indigent murder defendant after the lawyers had complained that the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council was not giving them funds for an expert witness.
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