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Mack Crawford
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Mary McCall Cash
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Marques Smith
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Jerry Word
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2009 TILP Training Participants

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.

 

The 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
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]