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The 2000 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH
Chapter 27
State Attorneys; Public Defenders; Related Offices
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Chapter 27, Part III, Florida Statutes 2000

PART III

PUBLIC DEFENDERS

27.50  Public defender; qualifications; election.

27.51  Duties of public defender.

27.512  Order of no imprisonment.

27.52  Determination of indigency.

27.525  Indigent Criminal Defense Trust Fund.

27.53  Appointment of assistants and other staff; method of payment.

27.5301  Salaries of public defenders and assistant public defenders.

27.5302  Salary discrimination based on gender or race; review within the office of public defender.

27.54  Expenditures for public defender's office.

27.55  Compensation of public defender and expenditures for office in newly created circuit.

27.561  Effect of nonpayment.

27.562  Disposition of funds.

27.58  Administration of Public Defender Services.

27.59  Access to prisoners.