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Ruling has 'huge' effect on indigent defense
The state Supreme Court on Monday held that a criminal defendant's right to a lawyer without a conflict trumped the budgetary concerns of the cash-strapped Georgia Public Defender Standards Council.The court ruled that an indigent man convicted of armed robbery in Gilmer County was entitled to get a new lawyer to press his argument that his appointed trial counsel was ineffective.Inmate supposed to be free spends Xmas behind bars
SEATTLE AP - James S. Anderson is about to spend his fifth straight Christmas behind bars. The difference this time is he's no longer a convict.A state appeals court erased the 31-year-old's conviction for armed robbery this month, saying new evidence uncovered by a law school student corroborates what Anderson has always said: He was another state when a group of men hit a Tacoma grocery store in 2004.In the Trenches: Last of K&S trusts lawyers leave for boutique
Trusts and estates boutique Abrams, Davis, Mason Long has added the remaining three members of King Spalding's trusts and estates practice-just a month after Ralph R. Morrison joined the firm as a partner from Jones Day's local trusts and estates practice.The additions combine trusts and estates lawyers from King Spalding, Jones Day and Kilpatrick Stockton into a single 10-lawyer boutique.Ballot measures face criticism
ATLANTA AP - Lobbyists for teachers typically don't have much in common with conservative anti-tax advocates and government watchdogs.But the unlikely coalition recently came together outside an Atlanta elementary school with a shared purpose: to warn about constitutional Amendment 2, which would allow school tax dollars to help subsidize economic development projects around the state.New AG must focus on filling ranks
NOW THAT PRESIDENT BUSH has nominated Michael Mukasey to succeed Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, the question is how much influence the retired federal judge will wield in filling the unusually high number of vacancies at the Department of Justice. Most of Gonzales' management team crumbled in the past nine months with the resignations of top administrators and political appointees.Lawyer-writers explore their creative interests
Novelist David Fulmer said the fiction-writing class he has taught in Decatur for the past four years has drawn all types of people, but one group stands out: lawyers."I never went looking for lawyers, but I've had at least one attorney in almost every class," said Fulmer, a mystery writer with eight books and a Shamus Award to his name.Worshippers urged not to 'sanitize' King's legacy
ATLANTA AP - A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon's church, urging the audience not to "sanitize" King's legacy or let the president off the hook on issues like poverty.Across the country, Americans marked what would have been King's 81st birthday with rallies and parades.Trending Stories
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