SEMINOLE COUNTY v. SPAZIANO

No. 98-115.

707 So.2d 931 (1998)

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida, Petitioner, v. Joseph R. SPAZIANO, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

March 13, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. McMillan, County Attorney, Susan E. Dietrich, Assistant County Attorney and Lonnie N. Groot, Deputy County Attorney, Sanford, for Petitioner.

Donald R. West and James M. Russ, Orlando, for Respondent.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

Petitioner, Seminole County, seeks certiorari review of an order which appointed co-counsel in a capital case at the county's expense. In 1976, Joseph Spaziano was convicted of first-degree murder and received a death sentence. As the result of a post conviction proceeding in 1996, Spaziano was granted a new trial. Although Spaziano is indigent, a private attorney, James M. Russ, represents him. While preparing...

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