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STATE EX REL. SMITH v. JORANDBY

No. 68141.

498 So.2d 948 (1986)

STATE of Florida ex rel. Jim SMITH, etc., Petitioner, v. Richard JORANDBY, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 18, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Shirley A. Walker and Jason Vail, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit; Craig S. Barnard, Chief Asst. Public Defender and Richard H. Burr III, Asst. Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for respondents.

OVERTON, Justice.

The attorney general petitions this Court for a writ of quo warranto prohibiting assistant public defenders from representing the personal representative of James Adams' estate in a civil rights action seeking money damages from the State of Florida. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(8), Fla. Const. We hold that, under Florida's constitution and statutory law, public defenders are authorized only to represent defendants whose liberty interests...

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