Arguing that anything lower would violate the government’s obligation to provide lawyers to indigent defendants, the embattled Georgia Public Defender Standards Council voted Monday to submit to the state a $48.3 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year-a 33 percent increase over what was recommended by Gov. Sonny Perdue.
The council’s vote came four days after state senators, frustrated by bickering over the group’s budget, approved a plan that would dissolve the Standards Council and replace it with a new advisory board.
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