In Re: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure and Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.140

Summary

The Supreme Court of Florida adopted out-of-cycle amendments to several criminal and appellate rules, with one minor modification to the proposed amendments. The amendments implement statutory changes concerning criminal discovery, juvenile sentencing and sentence review, human-trafficking-related expunction, and appeals from sentence-review orders. The amendments became effective immediately, subject to a sixty-day period for comments.