Florida Statute 27.50 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 27
STATE ATTORNEYS; PUBLIC DEFENDERS; RELATED OFFICES

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F.S. 27.50

27.50 Public defender; qualifications; election.—For each judicial circuit, there shall be a public defender who shall be, and shall have been for the preceding 5 years, a member in good standing of The Florida Bar. The public defender shall be elected at the general election, for a term of 4 years, by the qualified electors of the judicial circuit. The public defender shall be an elector of the state and shall reside within the territorial jurisdiction of the judicial circuit in which he or she serves.

History.—s. 1, ch. 63-409; s. 15, ch. 73-333; s. 1, ch. 80-376; s. 137, ch. 95-147.

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Total Results: 7

Crist v. FL. ASS'N OF CRIM. DEFENSE LAWYERS

978 So. 2d 134, 2008 WL 659435

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 13, 2008 | Docket: 1508431

Cited 36 times | Published

See ch. 63-409, § 1, Laws of Fla. (enacting section 27.50, Florida Statutes (1963), which created the

Dane P. Abdool v. Pam Bondi, etc.

141 So. 3d 529, 39 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 421, 2014 WL 2609154, 2014 Fla. LEXIS 1887

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jun 12, 2014 | Docket: 58814

Cited 28 times | Published

also ch. 63^09, § 1, Laws of Fla. (enacting section 27.50, Florida Statutes (1963), which created the

Schreiber v. Rowe

814 So. 2d 396, 2002 WL 432575

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Mar 21, 2002 | Docket: 1369109

Cited 18 times | Published

1963, responded to this mandate by enacting section 27.50, Florida Statutes, creating the office of the

Keur v. State

160 So. 2d 546

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 20, 1963 | Docket: 1457179

Cited 16 times | Published

Chapter 63-409, Laws of Florida 1963, F.S.A. § 27.50 et seq. Accord: Rolle v. State, 1934, 115 Fla.

Johnson v. State

78 So. 3d 1305, 37 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1, 2012 Fla. LEXIS 22, 2012 WL 16692

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jan 5, 2012 | Docket: 1907961

Cited 9 times | Published

See ch. 63-^09, § 1, Laws of Fla. (enacting section 27.50, Florida Statutes (1963), which created the

Public Defender, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida v. State

115 So. 3d 261, 38 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 339, 2013 WL 2248965, 2013 Fla. LEXIS 1038

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: May 23, 2013 | Docket: 60232161

Cited 2 times | Published

See ch. 63-409, § 1, Laws of Fla. (enacting section 27.50, Florida Statutes (1963), which created the

Colbath v. Adams

184 So. 2d 883, 1966 Fla. LEXIS 3812

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Apr 6, 1966 | Docket: 64496275

Published

having been made for the interim term under F.S. Section 27.50, F.S.A. Thereafter in 1964 Clayton Nance qualified