In Re: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure - 2018 Regular-Cycle Report – Revised Opinion on Rehearing

Summary

The Supreme Court of Florida withdrew its earlier opinion and adopted, with specified modifications, the Committee's regular-cycle amendments to numerous Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure and related forms. The amendments address first appearance procedures, plea colloquies, speedy trial, competency dismissals, discovery, sentencing, postconviction motions, and standardized judgment and sentence forms, with the amendments effective January 1, 2019, at 12:01 a.m. The court declined to adopt the proposed plea-rule amendment concerning credit for time served because of concerns about plea bargaining, uninformed waivers, conflicts with precedent, and increased judicial labor.