Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 17. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Chapter 12. LEGAL DEFENSE FOR INDIGENTS · Article 1. GEORGIA PUBLIC DEFENDER COUNCIL

17-12-1. Short title; Georgia Public Defender Council; responsibilities.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the ‘‘Georgia Indigent Defense Act of 2003.’’#
(b)
The Georgia Public Defender Council shall be an independent agency within the executive branch of state government.#
(c)
The council shall be responsible for assuring that adequate and effective legal representation is provided, independently of political considerations or private interests, to indigent persons who are entitled to representation under this chapter.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 17-12-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 191, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 65, § 1/SB 139; Ga. L. 2015, p. 519, § 7-1/HB 328.

Appointment of counsel for indigent defendants, Uniform Superior Court Rules, Rule 29.

For survey article on criminal law, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 89 (2007). For survey article on legal ethics, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 253 (2007).

U.S. Code.: Right to and assignment of counsel, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 44.

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