Hon. Nancy Daniels

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  AP Wire | 03/17/2004 | Probation bill could put... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/17/2004    Last Visited: 3/18/2004  

  "There are some situations where the five-year mandatory sentence would be extremely harsh," said Nancy Daniels, president of the Florida Public Defenders Association."A person who was on probation for burglary and got a positive drug test, they'd be captured in that net."
  
  Daniels said few elected judges would ever be willing to find - and put in writing - that a probation violator wouldn't be a danger to the community, so most violators would likely go to prison.
  
  "If something goes wrong they're going to catch the blame for it," she said.

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  Case Law Updates - August, 1999 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/1/1989    Last Visited: 1/8/2007  

  "1993 Legislature Reflects Public Concern," by Nancy Daniels, Public Defender, Second Judicial Circuit
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  "The Sausage Factory Grinds On: The Latest from the Legislature," by Tom Powell and Nancy Daniels
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  "Legislative Review," by Nancy A. Daniels

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  Florida Public Defenders Association - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/23/2005    Last Visited: 6/23/2005  

  Vice President - Hon. Nancy Daniels, 2nd Circuit

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  History Behind Amend 1 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/6/2002    Last Visited: 3/20/2006  

  "We're delighted you're doing this," Nancy Daniels of the Florida Public Defenders Association said after the bill's sponsor, Sen.

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  Naples Daily News: Bonitanews - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/20/2004    Last Visited: 2/20/2004  

  Nancy Daniels, president of the Florida Public Defenders Association, said public defense lawyers typically handle more than 50 percent of prosecutors' caseloads.But the numbers game played between what state prosecutors and public defenders count leads to misperception, she said.
  
  "We've had a robust discussion of what they (state attorneys) count," Daniels said."State attorneys count every contact with their office - even a phone call or someone coming to the office to make a complaint."
  
  The majority of charges against defendants spring from police investigations, she said, not prosecutor's investigators.
  
  "When we get the case it's brand-new to us," she said.

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  News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/26/2004    Last Visited: 3/26/2004  

  Nancy Daniels, Fla. Public Defender's Association: "It causes bad decision-making in the court room, it causes wrongful conviction, it causes unnecessary delays, it causes appeals, it causes additional collateral proceedings, it causes retrials, and it causes many things that cost people money down the line."

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  Probation Bill Could Put Thousands of Violators in... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/18/2004    Last Visited: 3/18/2004  

  "There are some situations where the five-year mandatory sentence would be extremely harsh," said Nancy Daniels, president of the Florida Public Defenders Association."A person who was on probation for burglary and got a positive drug test, they'd be captured in that net."
  
  Daniels said few elected judges would ever be willing to find - and put in writing - that a probation violator wouldn't be a danger to the community, so most violators would likely go to prison.
  
  "If something goes wrong they're going to catch the blame for it," she said.

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  Public defenders fear funding won't keep pace with... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/16/2003    Last Visited: 3/17/2003  

  - Nancy Daniels, 2nd Judicial Circuit public defender and president of the Florida Public Defender's Association
  
  "We're afraid that to some degree that equal justice under the law is going to be on the chopping block," said Nancy Daniels, 2nd Judicial Circuit public defender and president of the Florida Public Defender's Association.
  
  Public defenders say money provided to their offices isn't enough to handle burgeoning caseloads and the money is expected to get even tighter this legislative session.
  
  20th Judicial Circuit Public Defender Bob Jacobs, whose office handles cases in Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades counties, has worked in the office long enough - since 1973 - to have seen it grow from a staff of seven attorneys to 54 attorneys.Including the investigators, secretaries, clerks and other employees, there are now just over 100 people employed in the Public Defender's Office, which operates with a $5.2 million budget.
  
  Jacobs said his office handled 26,140 cases between July 1, 2001 and June 30, 2002.
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  The 2004 deadline for this to happen is rapidly approaching at a time when public defenders feel the Legislature isn't in a mood to be generous to the segment of the criminal justice system which wasn't popular to begin with, said Daniels.
  
  She added it's estimated that public defenders handle 80 percent to 90 percent of the total criminal case load, but the offices are funded at 50 percent to 60 percent of the level given to State Attorney's Offices, the prosecutors in those criminal cases.
  
  "I think it's pretty obvious that the defense of criminal defendants wouldn't be the top priority in legislators' minds.It's a group that doesn't have great popularity, doesn't have great influence with legislators," Daniels said.
  
  The absence of zealous representation on behalf of that unpopular group is what sparked the growth of public defenders.

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  TCPalm: Probation bill could put thousands of... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/17/2004    Last Visited: 3/17/2004  

  "There are some situations where the five-year mandatory sentence would be extremely harsh," said Nancy Daniels, president of the Florida Public Defenders Association."A person who was on probation for burglary and got a positive drug test, they'd be captured in that net."
  
  Daniels said few elected judges would ever be willing to find and put in writing that a probation violator wouldn't be a danger to the community, so most violators would likely go to prison.
  
  "If something goes wrong they're going to catch the blame for it," she said.

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  Tallahassee Democrat | 03/18/2004 | Probation bill... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/18/2004    Last Visited: 3/18/2004  

  "A person who was on probation for burglary and got a positive drug test, they'd be captured in that net," said Nancy Daniels, president of the Florida Public Defenders Association.

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