Sherri Jefferson strikes back May 17, 2007

Sherri Jefferson, the former Georgia public defender who was held in contempt and sentenced for 30 days, has struck back and filed slander actions against both Mike Mears, Director of the Georgia Public Defense Standards Council, and Albert Murray, the Commissioner for the Department of Juvenile Justice.

In her Notices of Intent to Sue, Jefferson alleges that Mears and Murray conspired to slander her in an effort to prevent her from speaking out on the “abusive practices” of the Department of Juvenile Justice, which apparently include the illegal detention of several children for in excess of four weeks, and refusing in that time to ever let them see an attorney.