By Scott Ballard
People are talking again about splitting the circuit. This comes up every once in a while.
In case you don’t know, there are 159 counties in Georgia but only 49 judicial circuits. There are district attorneys’ and public defenders’ offices for each circuit. The number of judges varies from circuit to circuit. Most circuits are comprised of more than one county. One has eight counties. Ours has four.
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