Florida Statute 27.705 - 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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27.705 Salaries of capital collateral regional counsel and assistant capital collateral counsel.—

(1) Each capital collateral regional counsel shall be paid a salary by the state, which shall be as provided in the General Appropriations Act and shall be paid in equal monthly installments.

(2) Full-time assistant capital collateral counsel shall be compensated in an amount set by the capital collateral regional counsel, which may not exceed 100 percent of the salary of the capital collateral regional counsel and shall be paid from funds appropriated for that purpose.

(3) All payments of the salary of each of the capital collateral regional counsel and employees of his or her office, and payments for other necessary expenses of office from state funds appropriated therefor, are for a valid public purpose. Travel expenses for official business within and outside the state shall be paid in accordance with s. 112.061. For purposes of s. 112.061 only, part-time assistant capital collateral counsel shall be considered employees of the regional office of capital collateral counsel.

(4) Each capital collateral regional counsel shall develop a classification and pay plan to be submitted on or before January 1 of each year to the Justice Administrative Commission, the office of the President of the Senate, and the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Such plan shall be developed in accordance with policies and procedures of the Executive Office of the Governor established pursuant to s. 216.181.

History.—s. 3, ch. 85-332; s. 4, ch. 87-85; s. 149, ch. 95-147; s. 5, ch. 97-313.

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Gaskin v. State, 798 So. 2d 721 (Fla. 2001).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 26 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 685, 2001 Fla. LEXIS 2080, 2001 WL 1241185

...ble to pay the court reporter fees associated with the transcription of capital postconviction proceedings. See Porter, 700 So.2d at 648 . We grounded this holding on our opinion in Hoffman, 695 So.2d at 684 , where we decided that sections 27.7001, 27.705(3), and 43.28, Florida Statutes (1995), directed CCR and not the counties to be “responsible for the payment of all necessary costs and expenses” of capital postconviction proceedings. Since we decided Porter and Hoffman , section 43.28 has not been amended, and there have been no substantive changes to sections 27.7001 or 27.705(3) that disrupt our conclusions in those cases....

...We do not read these statutes as requiring counties to pay for transcripts in capital postconviction proceedings, as the Legislature has specifically designated CCRC to be financially responsible for all necessary capital postconviction costs. See § 27.705(3), Fla....

...offman and its progeny indicate, the Legislature designated that in capital postconviction proceedings, CCRC is “responsible for the payment of all necessary costs and expenses.” Hoffman, 695 So.2d at 684 . Consistent with Hoffman , we find that section 27.705(3), Florida Statutes (2000), imposes upon CCRC the obligation to pay the clerk of the circuit court’s fees associated with the clerk’s preparation of the record on appeal in capital postconviction cases....