Definitions

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Criminal Procedure
  4. Legal Defense for Indigents
  5. Recovery of Attorney's Fees and Costs
  6. Definitions

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As used in this article, the term:

  1. "Paid in part" means payment by a county or municipality for a part of the cost of the provision of indigent defense services pursuant to a contract with a circuit public defender office as set forth in subsection (d) of Code Section 17-12-23. The term shall not include payment by a county or municipality for office space and other supplies as set forth in Code Section 17-12-34.
  2. "Public defender" means an attorney employed by a circuit public defender office or any other attorney who is paid from public funds to represent an indigent person in a criminal case.

(Code 1981, §17-12-50, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 710, § 6/SB 203; Ga. L. 2008, p. 846, § 39/HB 1245.)


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