PINELLAS COUNTY v. MAAS

No. 80-1941.

400 So.2d 1028 (1981)

PINELLAS COUNTY, Appellant, v. Roger R. MAAS and Paul C. Scherer, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean H. Kwall, Asst. County Atty., Clearwater, for appellant.

Philip J. Padovano, Tallahassee, for appellees.

Howard B. Eisenberg, Washington, D.C., for National Legal Aid and Defender Association as amicus curiae.


GRIMES, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order declaring sections 27.53 and 925.036, Florida Statutes (1979), unconstitutional to the extent that they attempt to limit a court's award of reasonable attorney's fees for the services of appointed counsel in representing indigent criminal defendants.

The state charged Michael Gross with first degree murder, and the trial court appointed a public defender to represent him. After a conflict developed, a private...

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