When the state government was considering legislation in 2010 to remove Georgia’s public defender system from the judiciary branch and move it to the executive branch and to restructure the Public Defender Standards Council to make it more subject to political control, a member of the Council, Wycliffe Orr, warned that the GPDSC would not remain a truly independent agency focused on providing quality indigent defense services to its clients.
I dismissed it at the time as “typical Atlanta politics” that had no effect on me “down in the trenches” representing criminal defendants in a rural Georgia circuit.
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