Archived Updates, January 18, 2008

UPDATES TO FLORIDA LAW
(with thanks to Barry Butin)

January 18, 2008

Khianthalat, 33 FLW 44, Fla, not entitled to permissive lesser included jury instruction of battery in Lewd and Lascivious case where there is no allegation of lack of consent in the charge and the evidence did not support lack of consent

Ward, 33 FLW 445, Fla, Jimmy Ryce Act, a person who was not in custody on 1-1-99, is eligible for civil commitment under the Act if that person was sentence to total confinement after 1-1-99, but the qualifying sex conviction occurred prior to 1-1-99

PRIOR UPDATES

January 11, 2008
January 15, 2008