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Second Circuit Public Defender Nancy Daniels, representing the Florida Public Defenders Association, had similar concerns, including the prohibition in HB 113A on public defenders representing clients charged with municipal and county ordinance violations.

It would be absolutely unprecedented for us to go another year with no new positions, which is called for in this budget," said Second Circuit Public Defender Nancy Daniels, president of the Florida Public Defenders Association.

William White of the Florida Public Defenders Association is concerned about how the state is going to pay for conflict counsel and said the state must be careful not to let diversionary programs like drug and teen courts fall by the wayside.

Although technically divided into opposing parties, all four lawyers appearing -- Eaton and former committee Chair Robert Wills for the rule, and 11th Circuit Assistant Public Defender, Christina Spaulding, representing the Florida Public Defenders Association, and James T.

HB 369, supported by both the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association and the Florida Public Defenders Association, was unanimously endorsed by the House Judiciary Committee on April 11.

Counsel for the Florida Public Defenders Association and Capital Collateral Regional Counsels stressed in briefs and oral arguments that the new law is unconstitutional on several grounds: violating separation of powers, due process, equal protection rights because it treats indigents with public defenders differently than those who can afford to hire their own counsel, restricting lawyers in doing their jobs to keep their clients alive by imposing strict guidelines and sanctions, and pitting direct appeals counsel against collateral appeals counsel in a conflict of interest.

Robert Trammell, general counsel for the Florida Public Defenders Association and a former legislator, told the commission: "Mr.