GA: beneath contempt
From Capital Defense Weekly:
Contemptible: juvie public defender sentenced to 30 days for defending her client
Standing up for one’s client’s is a lawyer’s duty. Building a record for appeal is good lawyering. Apparently doing both in Georgia can get you in jail. Sherri Jefferson, an Assistant Public Defender in the Brunswick Judicial District, was sentenced to thirty (yes 30) days for her conduct in a delinquency hearing.
Granted, contempt happens. Granted, trial courts sometimes do wacky things. Granted, finding a public defender in contempt won’t get it noted here, or much of anywhere, as rarely are such findings upheld on appeal.
A split panel, 4-3. on appeal in In re Sherri Jefferson, 2007 Ga. App. LEXIS 391 (Ga. Ct. App. 2007), upheld...
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Apparently she has now resigned and the pd appointed to her appeal has withdrawn and asked that his name be stricken from the record (I'm not sure those two events are related or in that order, but they are alleged to have happened).
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