Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases – Report No. 2014-07
April 30, 201540 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 221
Summary
The court authorized most of the proposed amendments and new criminal jury instructions for publication and use. It declined to authorize the proposed instructions concerning traveling to meet a minor because their lesser-included-offense provisions raised a double-jeopardy issue then pending before the court. The court also emphasized that authorization did not express an opinion on the instructions’ legal correctness and did not foreclose requests for additional or alternative instructions.