Public defender system board to meet over budget

The state's ailing public defender system will be addressed in an emergency meeting later this morning. The gathering of the system's board comes only weeks after it staged an open revolt against Governor Sonny Perdue call to cut state agency budgets. At the time, the board said 'no' to approval of a plan to slash staff and money for training. Georgia's statewide legal system has already been in financial crisis--the past three years budgets have been cut by seven million dollars.