Even as it struggles with a 6 percent reduction in its current budget, the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is bracing for a surge in both death-penalty cases and those requiring outside, appointed attorneys to handle cases in which the local public defenders’ offices have a conflict of interest.
Addressing a Sept. 18 meeting of the council, the council’s director, Mack Crawford, said that within the past 60 days, 11 new death-penalty cases had been assigned to the Capital Defender’s office, which is statutorily responsible for representing all indigent defendants in such cases.
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