Publication Date: 2013-07-15
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Stefan E. Ritter, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Michael L. Edwards Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant.
for defendant: Amicus Appellant: James F. Grubiak Association of County Commissioners of Georgia, Atlanta, and Elizabeth P. Bradley, Marietta. Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, Robert E. McCormack III, Deputy General Counsel, John J. Shiptenko, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, and James B. Ellington Hull Barrett PC, Augusta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Stephen B. Bright, Melanie Velez, Atteeyah E. Hollie Southern Center for Human Rights, Gerald R. Weber Jr., Atlanta, J. Scott Key, Decatur, Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, Russell C. Gabriel, Bogart, and George P. Donaldson III Perry & Walters LLP, Albany.
Case Number: S10U1679
A single public defender's impermissible conflict of interest related to representing co-defendants is imputed to all public defenders working in the circuit public defender office of that particula