He’s still not certain whether a stiff rebuke to the governor and General Assembly he submitted to the Daily Report last week spurred legislation that could spell the end of the independent board that oversees indigent defense in Georgia. But Georgia Public Defender Standards Council member E. Wycliffe Orr Sr. said if the comments he and his colleagues have lobbed toward the Gold Dome criticizing the state for its funding and oversight decisions prompted SB 42, then so be it.
“In fact, there may be a silver lining,” Orr said Monday. “This bill really brings to the fore the question of whether Georgia is going to actually have a public defender system. … The people of this state, the members of the State Bar, the judges-everybody needs to rally to defeat Senate Bill 42 , and re-empower the council.”
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