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IN RE FORMAL ADVISORY OPINION 10-1

No. S10U1679.

741 S.E.2d 622 (2013)

In re FORMAL ADVISORY OPINION 10-1.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 15, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis R. Dunn , Deputy Atty. Gen., Samuel S. Olens , Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Michael Lanier Edwards , Eastern Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant.

James Brian Ellington , Hull Barrett, PC, Augusta, Paula J. Frederick , Gen. Counsel, State Bar of Georgia, Robert E. McCormack, III , Deputy Gen. Counsel, John Joseph Shiptenko , Asst. Gen. Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, for appellee.

Elizabeth Page Bradley , Marietta, James F. Grnbiak , Association of County Commissioners of Georgia, for amicus appellant.

George P. Donaldson, III , Perry & Walters, LLP, Russell C. Gabriel , Bogart, Franklin James Hogue , Hogue & Hogue, Macon, Joseph Scott Key , J. Scott Key, P.C., Decatur, Stephen B. Bright , Melanie Velez , Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, Gerald Richard Weber, Jr. , Law Office of Gerry Weber, LLC, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Responding to a letter from the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (GPDSC), the State Bar Formal Advisory Opinion Board (Board) issued Formal Advisory Opinion 10-1 (FAO 10-1), answering the following question in the negative:

May different lawyers employed in the circuit public defender office in the same judicial circuit represent co-defendants when a single lawyer would have an impermissible conflict of interest in doing so?

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