Florida Statute 27.706 - 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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27.706 Private practice of law prohibited.—Each capital collateral regional counsel and all full-time assistants appointed by him or her shall serve on a full-time basis and may not engage in the private practice of law.

History.—s. 3, ch. 85-332; s. 150, ch. 95-147; s. 6, ch. 97-313.

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State v. Kilgore, 976 So. 2d 1066 (Fla. 2007).

Cited 5 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2007 WL 4142744

...Similarly, section 27.702(2) requires CCRC to represent persons convicted and sentenced to death within the region in collateral postconviction proceedings, unless a court appoints or permits other counsel to appear as counsel of record. § 27.702(2), Fla. Stat. (2002). Section 27.706, Florida Statutes, also prohibits CCRC from engaging in the private practice of law. § 27.706, Fla....

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Melton v. State, 56 So. 3d 868 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 3211, 2011 WL 831135

....711(11) would logically apply to CCRC, as well, saying that, although the statutes did not specifically prohibit CCRC from representing a capital defendant in a non-capital collateral challenge, neither did they expressly authorize CCRC to do so. . Section 27.706, Florida Statutes (2009) prohibits lawyers employed by CCRC from engaging in the private practice of law on any *871 body’s behalf....