2018 Georgia Code
Title 17 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 12 - Legal Defense for Indigents
Article 3 - Assistance by Third-Year Law Students or Staff Instructors
§ 17-12-41. Assistance of public defender by third-year law student or staff instructor

Universal Citation: GA Code § 17-12-41 (2018)
  • An authorized third-year law student or staff instructor, when under the supervision of a circuit public defender, may assist in criminal proceedings within this state as if admitted and licensed to practice law in this state except that all pleadings and other entries of record must be signed by a circuit public defender or by his or her duly appointed assistant and that, in the conduct of a trial or other criminal proceeding, a circuit public defender or his or her duly appointed assistant must be physically present.

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