MONROE COUNTY v. GARCIA

No. 96-2787.

695 So.2d 823 (1997)

MONROE COUNTY, Petitioner, v. Manuel E. GARCIA, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Kelinson, Coconut Grove, for petitioner.

Jason R. Smith; Manuel E. Garcia, Key West, for respondent.

Before FLETCHER, SHEVIN and SORONDO, JJ.


SHEVIN, Judge.

Monroe County challenges an order awarding court-appointed counsel, Manuel E. Garcia, attorney's fees in the amount of $21,347.50.1 We grant certiorari, quash the order, and remand for further proceedings.

In October 1994, the trial court appointed Garcia, a private attorney, to represent indigent defendant Eric Hoffman in a sexual battery case which involved nine capital sexual battery counts as well as forty-seven...

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