Georgia man behind bars 10 years, still waiting for his day in court

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(Atlanta News First) - Sitting at her dining room table, Sonya Holmes writes a postcard to her son who she hasn’t seen, in person, for years. In a letter the Southern Center sent to the Georgia Attorney General in February, it claims the Defender Council is “intentionally making records difficult to obtain” by over-charging for documents and providing “increasingly incomplete records. “The lack of public defenders slows down the judicial process because, as I said before, we’re not going to take a guilty plea or hear a motion of a defendant who wants to be represented, unless he or she has counsel

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