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STATE v. PUB. DEFENDER, ELEVENTH JUD. CIR.

Nos. 3D08-2272, 3D08-2537.

12 So.3d 798 (2009)

The STATE of Florida and Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel, Third District Court of Appeal Region, Appellants, v. PUBLIC DEFENDER, ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 13, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Scott D. Makar, Solicitor General, and Louis F. Hubener, Charles B. Upton, II, and Courtney Brewer, Deputy Solicitors General, Tallahassee, for appellant, The State of Florida; Joseph P. George, Jr., and Nancy C. Wear, for appellant, Office of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel.

Hogan & Hartson and Parker D. Thomson and Alvin F. Lindsay and Julie E. Nevins and Matthew R. Bray, Miami, for appellee, Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Public Defender Association and James Marion Moorman, Public Defender Tenth Judicial Circuit, and Robert A. Young, General Counsel for the Florida Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, as amicus curiae.

Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association and Arthur I. Jacobs, General Counsel for the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, as amicus curiae.

Before SHEPHERD, CORTIÑAS, and SALTER, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

We review an order of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit permitting the Public Defender for Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit ("PD11") to decline representation in all future third-degree felony cases.

I. Background

In twenty-one criminal cases, PD11 filed motions seeking permission to be relieved of its statutory obligation to represent indigent defendants in noncapital felony cases. Each motion was accompanied...

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