Supreme Court of Florida
In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report 2018-12
May 30, 2019272 So. 3d 243
Summary
The court authorized amended and new standard criminal jury instructions for publication and use, with specified modifications. It revised instructions addressing controlled-substance possession, affirmative defenses, lesser-included offenses, and trafficking, and replaced numerous substance-specific trafficking instructions with a single adaptable instruction. The court also clarified that its authorization does not resolve the legal correctness of the instructions or foreclose requests for alternative instructions.