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Mack Crawford
Executive Director
Mary McCall Cash
Deputy Director
Sarah Haskin
Chief of Staff
Jimmonique Rodgers
Appellate Division Director
Marques Smith
Budget Director
Jerry Word
Capital Defender Interim Director
Jan Hankins
Circuit Public Defender Support Director
Larry Schneider
Conflicts and Compliance Director
Sabrina Rhinehart
Mental Health Division Director
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On Thursday, May 29, Chief Judge Martha C. Christian administered the oath of office under the Third Year Practice Act to six Mercer Law Students. The students will be serving in the Macon Circuit Public Defender’s Office over the course of the next year. They are (from left to right): Gabby Lawrence, Devin Franklin, Amanda Cosson, Chief Judge Martha Christian, Kadee Reynolds, Andrew Dillon, Anne Carroll.
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GPDSC News and Events
Mack Crawford Named New Executive Director
Mercer Law Students to Serve in Macon Circuit Public Defender Office
Clayton Circuit Defender Office Intern Program Featured in Clayton News-Daily
Macon Gets New Mental Health Court
Meet the Rome Judicial Circuit Public Defender Office
Longtime Advocate for Justice Emmet J Bondurant Steps Down as Council Chairman
State Bar Honors Circuit Public Defenders Lee Robinson and Michael Edwards for Their Community Service Work
Mike Randolph in the Macon Circuit Honored with Clarence Darrow Courage Award
Meet Our Circuit Public Defenders: Northeastern Circuit
GPDSC Welcomes New Council Member
Cordele Circuit Public Defender Burt Baker Appointed New GPDSC Training Director
Congratulations to the Honors Program Class of 2006
New Conflict Defender Offices Added
Thanks to all of our 2006 Interns!
New Office for Clayton Circuit
GPDSC Attorneys Receive the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers "Case of the Year Award"
Judge Winston P. Bethel Receives the
2006 Debra J. Blum Award
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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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