After a State Bar of Georgia committee approved an advisory opinion that would bar public defenders from the same circuit from representing more than one defendant in a particular case, Mack Crawford, the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council’s director, asked a top legislative leader for help.
While the bar committee’s advisory opinion said it was an “impermissible conflict of interest” for public defenders from the same circuit to serve defendants on the same case, the opinion did say circuits could exchange conflict cases with neighboring circuits.
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