Budgets a mixed bag for courts, PDs, and state attorneys.

With final budget estimates being received shortly after the 2004 Florida Legislature convened, state court system officials have begun getting preliminary 2004-05 budget figures from the House and Senate.

It's a very mixed picture.

Sixth Circuit Judge Susan Schaeffer, chair of the Trial Court Budget Commission, said the Senate budget writers have come up with a good budget for circuit and county courts. But the House, she said, has done an outstanding job.

Second Circuit Public Defender Nancy Daniels, president of the Florida Public Defender Asso