Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report No. 2015-08
July 7, 2016194 So. 3d 1007
Summary
The Court authorized amended criminal standard jury instructions concerning battery, falsely impersonating an officer, and abuse, aggravated abuse, and neglect of an elderly person or disabled adult. It declined to use the rulemaking proceeding to resolve whether statutory enhancements in several other instructions are elements of offenses or sentencing factors, holding that issue must arise in an actual case or controversy.