HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY v. LOPEZ

No. 87-2254.

523 So.2d 670 (1988)

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Walter M. LOPEZ, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Lee Hinds, Asst. Co. Atty., Tampa, for petitioner.

No appearance for respondent.


PARKER, Judge.

Hillsborough County seeks review of the trial court's award of attorney's fees in the amount of $32,094 to respondent Walter M. Lopez for his representation of an indigent defendant in a criminal case. We agree with the county that the award of attorney's fees failed to comply with the hourly rate fixed by the chief judge.

Therefore, we reverse and remand this case to the trial court with directions that it recalculate Lopez's fee based upon...

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