Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1988

Hillsborough County v. Lopez

Hillsborough County v. Lopez
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided March 18, 1988 · Campbell, Parker, Ryder
523 So. 2d 670; 13 Fla. L. Weekly 734; 1988 Fla. App. LEXIS 1073; 1988 WL 22257 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Hillsborough County v. Lopez

Opinion of the Court

PARKER, Judge.

Hillsborough County seeks review of the trial court’s award of attorney’s fees in the amount of $32,094 to respondent Walter M. Lopez for his representation of an indigent defendant in a criminal case. We agree with the county that the award of attorney’s fees failed to comply with the hourly rate fixed by the chief judge.

Therefore, we reverse and remand this case to the trial court with directions that it recalculate Lopez’s fee based upon an hourly rate of $40 as established by the chief judge in that circuit. Board of County Commissioners of Hillsborough County v. Lopez, 518 So.2d 372 (Fla. 2d DCA 1987). See also Metropolitan Dade County v. Gold, 509 So.2d 407 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987).

RYDER, A.C.J., and CAMPBELL, J., concur.

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