Supreme Court of Florida

In Re: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure

October 29, 201540 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 593

Summary

The Supreme Court of Florida adopted out-of-cycle amendments to several Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure and adopted a new rule establishing a model form for motions seeking jail credit. The amendments address successive sentence-correction motions, postconviction-relief forms and requirements, indigent-status applications, jail-credit motions, and capital postconviction records-production forms. The amendments take effect January 1, 2016, at 12:01 a.m.