IN RE ORDER ON PROSECUTION OF CR. APP.

Nos. 74574, 74580, 74629, 74630 and 74631.

561 So.2d 1130 (1990)

In re ORDER ON PROSECUTION OF CRIMINAL APPEALS BY the TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT PUBLIC DEFENDER.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 3, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan H. Churuti, County Atty., and John E. Schaefer, Asst. County Atty., Clearwater, James G. Yaeger, County Atty., and Elizabeth M. Woodford, Asst. County Atty., Fort Myers, Lee County joining Pinellas County, and Kenneth B. Cuyler, County Atty., and Brenda C. Wilson and Ramiro Manalich, Asst. County Attys., Naples, Collier County joining Pinellas County, for petitioner in No. 74574.

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, Bartow, for respondents.

Will J. Richardson, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Florida Ass'n of Counties, Inc.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Joseph Louis Campbell, Sp. Asst. Public Defender, Miami, amicus curiae for the Florida Public Defender Ass'n, Inc.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Richard E. Doran, Director, Criminal Appeals, Dept. of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for State of Fla.

H. Hamilton Rice, Jr., County Atty., and Paul G. Bangel, Asst. County Atty., Bradenton, for petitioner in No. 74580.

Sandra J. Augustine, County Atty., and Charles H. Webb, Asst. County Atty., Port Charlotte, for petitioner in No. 74629.

Frederick B. Karl, County Atty., and Jeanne Z. McLean and Robert R. Warchola, Asst. County Attys., Tampa, for petitioner in No. 74630.

James G. Yaeger, County Atty., and Elizabeth M. Woodford, Asst. County Atty., Fort Myers, for petitioner in No. 74631.


PER CURIAM.

Six Florida counties, Pinellas, Manatee, Charlotte, Hillsborough, Lee, and Collier, in five consolidated cases, challenge an order of the Second District Court of Appeal dated May 12, 1989, regarding the prosecution of criminal appeals by the Public Defender for the Tenth Judicial Circuit. We have jurisdiction because this case affects a class of constitutional officers, public defenders. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. We approve in part and modify...

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