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Mack Crawford
Director
Mary McCall Cash
Deputy Director
and Senior Staff Attorney
Marques Smith
Deputy Director
Administration
Jimmonique Rodgers
Appellate Division Director
Larry Schneider
Compliance Division Director
Jim Stokes
Conflict Division Director
Sabrina Rhinehart
Mental Health Divison Director
Jerry Word
Acting Capital Defender
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2009 TILPP Training
On July 20th -23rd, over 45 assistant public defenders from across the state participated in the Transition Into Law Practice Program (TILPP) at Lake Blackshear in Cordele, GA. Participants were trained in the following topics: voir dire, opening statements, direct examination, cross examination, impeachment and closing. Each attorney was exposed to these topics in a large group session and then practiced these skills in small group sessions utilizing hypothetical case scenarios.
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Georgia Public Defender Standards Council assumed all duties
and responsibilities of the Georgia Indigent Defense Council
as of December 31, 2003. At that time the Georgia Indigent Defense
Council transfered its assets, resources, and employees to the
new Georgia Public Defender Standards Council |
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Our
Mission
The Georgia Public Defender Standards
Council is an independent agency within the executive
branch of the state government of Georgia . The mission
of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council is to
ensure, independently of political considerations or private
interests, that each client whose cause has been entrusted
to a circuit public defender receives zealous, adequate,
effective, timely, and ethical legal representation,
consistent with the guarantees of the Constitution of
the State of Georgia, the Constitution of the United States
and the mandates of the Georgia Indigent Defense Act of
2003; to provide all such legal services in a cost efficient
manner; and to conduct that representation in such a way
that the criminal justice system operates effectively
to achieve justice.
[Reference: O.C.G.A. § 17-12-1 (c), Georgia Indigent
Defense Act of 2003] |
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