While the state Senate and the House of Representatives are poised to remove from the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council of any meaningful authority, the author of the bill doing so said Thursday that the tight time-frame facing the General Assembly may cause problems.
“I just hope we have time to work out the differences” between competing versions of Senate Bill 42, said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Preston W. Smith, R-Rome. “If not, we may well have to come back and address it next year.”
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