Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—report No. 2016-08
February 23, 2017211 So. 3d 995
Summary
The Court authorized amended standard criminal jury instructions 7.8, 7.8(a), 9.1, 9.2, 18.3, and 28.18 for publication and use, subject to correcting statutory citations in two instructions. It declined to authorize the proposed amendment to instruction 20.18(a) because the proposal raised substantive questions about possession instructions that should be resolved only in an actual case or controversy. The Court also stated that authorization does not express an opinion on the legal correctness or applicability of the instructions.