AKRIDGE v. CROW

No. 2D03-5146.

903 So.2d 346 (2005)

Dianna L. AKRIDGE, Todd W. Clark, Kevin L. McMillan, Lisa K. Morrow, Earl J. Savage, and Derrick L. Courtney, Michael W. Johnson, Raymond D. Nealey, Patrick L. Elkins, and Six Hundred Twenty-five (625) Additional Petitioners, Petitioners, v. Lawrence W. CROW, Jr., Sheriff of Polk County, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

June 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Robert A. Young, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Petitioners.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Katherine V. Blanco, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Richard M. Fishkin, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Respondent.


KELLY, Judge.

In this amended petition for writ of habeas corpus, the petitioners challenge as unconstitutional their confinement pursuant to Administrative Order 7-12.0, an order adopted by the circuit court in Polk County, which establishes a collections court program for the collection of fines, fees, and costs in all criminal cases. The nine named petitioners received and completed county jail sentences on misdemeanor offenses; however, each had fines, fees, and...

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