BD. OF HILLSBOROUGH CTY COM'RS v. CUNNINGHAM

No. 87-3477.

529 So.2d 724 (1988)

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Florida, Petitioner, v. Thomas E. CUNNINGHAM, Jr., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 30, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

No appearance for respondent.


PARKER, Judge.

This is a petition for writ of certiorari in which the Board of County Commissioners of Hillsborough County seeks review of an order awarding $5,500 to Cunningham as a reasonable attorney's fee for legal services he rendered as court-appointed counsel to an indigent criminal defendant. For the reasons stated below, we deny the petition, but remand for correction of the order.

Cunningham represented an indigent criminal defendant who was charged...

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