Legal Question in Criminal Law in Florida

If you have a plubic defender and want to hire a lawyer can the lawyer get files from the public defender if ithe case is about to go to trial and your not happy with the public Defender


Asked on 4/16/14, 7:31 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Eric Trabin Lucid Legal, PLLC

Most certainly yes. If you hire a private attorney then the public defender is obligated to provide all of the discovery/evidence in their possession to your new attorney.

I would caution that if you want to hire a private attorney then you should do it sooner rather than later. If you wait until the last second to hire a private attorney then the judge may not continue the case to give your new lawyer time to prepare. The sooner that you have a new lawyer the sooner they can ask the judge for more time to get ready.

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Answered on 4/16/14, 7:33 am


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