Believe it or not, the State of Florida has now made it MORE difficult for an indigent capital inmate to find a quality lawyer on appeal. The state is refusing to commit to paying lawyers more than $3500 for a death penalty appeal. This is, of course, going to make many lawyers unwilling to take death penalty appeals for poor clients, and is just another indication of how classism is rampant in the application of the death penalty. You have a right to a lawyer for at least your first appeal, but you don't have the right to any particular sort of quality. Trust me, $3500 doesn't go very far.

State limits funds for death penalty appeals