SCHR Indigent Defense Cases in the News

• Newsmaker of the Year: Stephen B. Bright [Fulton County Daily Report 12/3/03]
   
• Indigent bill beat long odds [Fulton County Daily Report 12/3/03]
   
• Georgia Appeal Ruling Jolts Indigent Defense Role [Fulton County Daily Report 12/13/02]

AUGUSTA, GA.

• Between rock and hard place [Augusta Chronicle 6/18/03]
• Group fears mishandling of poor defendants [Augusta Chronicle 5/21/03]

COLLEGE PARK, GA.

• Probation fees unfairly punish poor, critics say [Atlanta Journal-Constitution 9/24/03]
• Too Poor to Pay Her Fine, Woman Spent 13 Days in Jail [Fulton County Daily Report 8/22/03]

CORDELE CIRCUIT, GA.

• Open for service: Need a public defender? The Cordele Circuit office is now up and running [Cordele Dispatch 5/12/04]
• Justice on hold [Macon Telegraph 3/14/04]
• Cordele to test public defender reform [Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2/14/04]
• 'I felt like I was just nothing'  [Atlanta Journal-Constitution 12/20/03]
• Suit filed against county's indigent defense system [Cordele Dispatch 3/27/03]
• Court district hit with lawsuit [Albany Herald 3/27/03]
• Suit targets Cordele's indigent defense [Atlanta Journal-Constitution 3/27/03]
• Indigent defendants file lawsuit [Macon Telegraph 3/27/03]

COWETA COUNTY, GA.

• Coweta settles suit on indigent defense [Atlanta Journal-Constitution 3/9/03]

FULTON COUNTY, GA.

• Lawsuit may shed defendants [Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6/27/03]
• Suspects lacking lawyers are freed in Atlanta [New York Times 6/4/02]

GULFPORT, MS

• Group dismisses lawsuit [Sun Herald 2/1/07]
• When the Poor Go To Court [U.S. News & World Report 1/23/06]
• Editorial: Gulfport is indebted to those trying to keep debtors out
  of jail and the city out of court [Sun Herald 8/7/05]
• Pamphlet on legal rights to be given out  [Sun Herald 8/4/05]
• Warr promises to fix Gulfport court issues [Sun Herald 8/3/05]
• New Gulfport mayor wants to meet with plaintiffs' lawyers [Sun Herald 7/27/05]
• Suit claims Gulfport court has created debtors' prison [Sun Herald 7/24/05]
   

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