Wyc Orr was remembered Thursday as a passionate, even fiery, advocate for defendants caught up in an often unfair justice system with no means to defend themselves.
A founding member of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council and the chairman of the council’s predecessor, the Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Orr died Wednesday at the age of 67. In April, Orr told the Daily Report he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His daughter, Kristine Orr Brown of Orr & Brown in Gainesville, confirmed Thursday that, after a 15-month struggle, he had succumbed to the disease.
