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Apr 26, 2019

Georgia Lawyers Seek to Intervene After Brain-Damaged Defendant Permitted to Represent Herself in Death-Penalty Trial

Arguing that a brain-dam­aged woman fac­ing the death penal­ty for the starv­ing death of her young daugh­ter ​“was inca­pable of rep­re­sent­ing her­self,” lawyers from the Georgia Office of the Capital Defender have asked that they be reap­point­ed as her coun­sel if the case advances to the penal­ty-phase of her tri­al for life or…