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2018 Georgia Code 17-12-6 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 17 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Section 12. Legal Defense For Indigents, 17-12-1 through 17-12-128.

ARTICLE 1 GEORGIA PUBLIC DEFENDER COUNCIL

17-12-6. Assistance of council to public defenders.

  1. The council may assist the public defenders throughout the state in their efforts to provide adequate legal defense to the indigent. Assistance may include:
    1. The preparation and distribution of a basic defense manual and other educational materials;
    2. The preparation and distribution of model forms and documents employed in indigent defense;
    3. The promotion of and assistance in the training of indigent defense attorneys;
    4. The provision of legal research assistance to public defenders; and
    5. The provision of such other assistance to public defenders as may be authorized by law.
  2. The council:
    1. Shall be the fiscal officer for the circuit public defender offices and shall account for all moneys received from each governing authority; and
    2. May collect, maintain, review, and publish in print or electronically records and statistics for the purpose of evaluating the delivery of indigent defense representation in Georgia.

(Code 1981, §17-12-6, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 191, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 846, § 19/HB 1245; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 10/SB 388; Ga. L. 2015, p. 519, § 7-5/HB 328.)

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted "may assist" for "shall assist" in the introductory language of subsection (a); and substituted "May collect" for "Shall collect" in paragraph (b)(2).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 17-12-6

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Duke v. State, 856 S.E.2d 250 (Ga. 2021).

Cited 7 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Mar 15, 2021 | 311 Ga. 135

...hose already specified or implied; further, additional”). And the General Assembly utilized the word “other” throughout the IDA to broadly refer to things beyond those specified in the statute. See, e.g., with all emphases supplied, OCGA §§ 17-12-6 (a) (1) (“The [GPDC] may assist public defenders throughout the state ....
...es attorneys representing indigent defendants in various parts of the IDA without limiting the meaning of those “attorneys” to either conflict counsel or capital defenders. See, e.g., with emphases supplied OCGA §§ 17-12-5 (b) (1); 17-12-6 (a) (3) (explaining that the GPDC may help in “[t]he promotion of and assistance in the training of indigent defense attorneys”); 17-12-11 (b) (providing “the circuit public defender or other attorney who represented the indigent per...
...ograms for attorneys representing indigent defendants “in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of legal representation of such persons”); 17-12-5 (d) (detailing, among other things, the financial oversight duties of the GPDC director); 17-12-6 (b) (1) (establishing the GPDC as “the fiscal officer for the 21 its own employees and the circuit public defenders and their employees, but also through contracts with outside counsel and ancillary service providers....