Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report No. 2014-08
October 8, 2015176 So. 3d 938
Summary
The Supreme Court of Florida authorized publication and use of amended criminal standard jury instructions and one new instruction submitted by the committee, subject to deleting an erroneous note concerning unborn-child deaths in the vessel-homicide instruction. The amendments updated statutory elements and definitions, including rules concerning lotteries, burglary, exploitation, personal-identification-information offenses, and human trafficking. The Court emphasized that authorization did not express an opinion on the instructions’ legal correctness or foreclose requests for alternative instructions or challenges to their applicability.