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No Application of Florida's Indigency Statute to Collateral Criminal Proceedings

No Application of Florida's Indigency Statute to Collateral Criminal
Proceedings

The Florida Supreme Court has held that Florida's Prisoner Indigency
Statute (PIS), §57.085, Florida Statutes, does not apply to collateral
criminal proceedings. PIS was enacted to reduce the filing of frivolous
prisoner lawsuits, and requires prisoner's to pay the filing ...

 

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