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- Title: State Florida v. Jonathan Hill
- Author : Supreme Court of Florida
- Release Date : January 05, 1995
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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By petition for writ of certiorari, Sheppard & White, P.A. seeks review of an order requiring respondent, the City of Jacksonville, to pay $29,864.05 in legal fees and costs for petitioners representation of Gerald D. Murray in his successful appeal to the Florida Supreme Court of his conviction for first degree murder and his sentence of death. The amount of fees granted by the trial court was based upon Fourth Judicial Circuit Administrative Order No. 86-33, as amended, by which the chief judge of that circuit set the hourly rate for appointed appellate counsel at a rate of $40 an hour. Petitioner contends that this fixed hourly rate is confiscatory of an attorneys time, energy and talents, and denies a criminal defendant his right to the effective assistance of counsel. For the reasons that follow, we grant the petition for the sole purpose of increasing compensation to the rate of $50 an hour pursuant to an amendment to Administrative Order No. 86-33. In all other respects we deny the relief requested by petitioner, but certify a question of great public importance to the Florida Supreme Court.
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