SB 1088 was enacted in 2007 creating five Offices of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel based upon the geographic boundaries of the five District Courts of Appeal.The OCCCRC’s - the “Regional Counsels” - were created in response to the skyrocketing costs of the State’s obligation to provide court appointed counsel (CAC) in criminal cases (where the Public Defenders have a conflict of interest) and in a myriad of civil cases, chiefly dependency & guardianships.Deen, 5th DCA Region Offices of Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel The judges and staff of the Second District Court of Appeal are committed to justice that is accessible, fair, responsible, and accountable.A Success Story of Legislative Innovation The court will retain its headquarters in Lakeland as an administrative facility. A study ordered by the Legislature in 2016 identified either Pinellas or Hillsborough county, the district's population center, as optimal locations for the court's primary courthouse. The legislative session of 2021 included funding for a courthouse in Pinellas County-The Bernie McCabe Courthouse- named for the late, longtime, and distinguished state attorney in The Sixth Judicial Circuit. It has shared a student classroom courtroom in Tampa with Stetson University College of Law since 2005, its only courtroom after the closure of the courthouse in Lakeland. Since 2016, the court has operated from leased office space in Tampa and Lakeland. The court has been without a courthouse since 2016 when the Lakeland courthouse was deemed unsafe. Due to overwhelming demand, the additional Tampa location was established in 1979. At that time, it was centrally located within the district, which then included the districts of the subsequently established Fourth and Fifth District Courts of Appeal (in West Palm Beach and Daytona Beach, respectively). The court was established in 1956 in Lakeland. Most often, this occurs when the court considers receding from a previous decision by the court which has become obsolete or new events have caused the court to view that decision as an inaccurate statement of the then-current law. Infrequently, all sixteen of the court's judges will hear and decide a case. In most cases, each case is heard by a panel of three judges, at least two of whom must agree on the panel's decision on how that case must be decided. After their appointment, each judge must stand for a merit retention election every six years for the voters of the district's fourteen counties to determine whether the judge is retained for another six-year term. Sixteen judges serve the court, each of whom was appointed by the then sitting governor at the time of their appointment. The court serves a population of nearly six million people. In all but a few cases, it is the court of last resort for these appeals. These courts are located in southwest Florida and include The Sixth Judicial Circuit (Pinellas and Pasco counties), the Tenth Judicial Circuit (Polk, Highlands, and Hardee counties), The Twelfth Judicial Circuit (Manatee, Sarasota, and DeSoto counties), The Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Hillsborough County), and The Twentieth Judicial Circuit (Charlotte, Lee, Collier, Hendry and Glades counties).
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It hears appeals of trial court decisions from five of Florida's twenty judicial circuits. The Second District Court of Appeal is one of the busiest appellate courts in the Nation and has a distinctive record of efficiency.
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