FLORIDA

STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS

IN CRIMINAL CASES

THE SUPREME COURT COMMITTEE ON

STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS

IN CRIMINAL CASES

F. Rand Wallis, Chair

Lisa D. Campbell

Catherine Marlowe

John Duryea, Jr.

Benjamin Fox

Ashley Greene

Steven Levin

M. Caroline McCrae

Rodolfo Ruiz, II

James Schneider

Kathryn Strobach


ORDERS OF SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA

REVISING FLORIDA STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS

IN CRIMINAL CASES

OPINIONS / INSTRUCTIONS AMENDED /
431 So. 2d 594 (Fla. 1981) / 1981 REVISION
431 So. 2d 599 (Fla. 1981) / Lesser Included Offenses Schedule (LIOS)
403 So. 2d 979 (Fla. 1981) / LIOS
431 So. 2d 600 (Fla. 1982) / 3.6(a) (formerly 3.04(b))
477 So. 2d 985 (Fla. 1985) / Former 2.06 deleted, 3.6(f) (formerly 3.04(d)), 3.6(g) (formerly 3.04(e)), 3.6(h) (formerly 3.04(f)), 7.3, 7.5, 7.7, 7.8, 7.11, 9.1, 9.2, 10.9, 10.10, 11.10, 13.1, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 15.1, 16.3, 25.10, 25.11, LIOS
483 So. 2d 428 (Fla. 1986) / 3.6(a) (formerly 3.04(b))
508 So. 2d 1221 (Fla. 1987) / 3.5(c), 3.6(d) (formerly 3.04(g)), 3.6(j) (formerly 3.04(c)), 7.8, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.10, 14.1, 17.3, 17.4, 25.17, LIOS
509 So. 2d 917 (Fla. 1987) / 25.9, 25.10, 25.11, 25.12, 25.13
543 So. 2d 1205 (Fla. 1989) / 3.6(h) (formerly 3.04(f)), 3.6(j) (formerly 3.04(c)), 7.11, 8.4, 10.1, 10.3, 10.6, 10.7(a), 10.8, 10.14, 10.15, 12.3, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 16.3, 16.4, 21.2, 22.14, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.6, 25.7, 25.9, 25.10, 25.11, 25.12, 25.13, 25.17, 26.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4, 26.5, 26.6, 26.7, 26.8, LIOS
573 So. 2d 306 (Fla. 1990) / 7.1
575 So. 2d 1276 (Fla. 1991) / 30, 31
579 So. 2d 75 (Fla. 1991) / 7.11
603 So. 2d 1175 (Fla. 1992) / 3.3(c) (formerly 3.05(c)), 3.3(d) (formerly 3.05(d)), 3.5(a) (formerly 3.01), 3.5(b) (formerly 3.01(a)), 3.6(g) (formerly 3.04(e)), 3.9(c) (formerly 2.04(c)), 7.1, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.10, 7.11, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 10.3, 10.7(a), 10.7(b), 10.7(c), 10.7(d), 10.12, 10.15, 11.3, 11.10, 12.1, 12.2, 12.4, 14.1, 16.4, 17.4, 18.1, 22.2, 25.14, 28.2, 28.3, LIOS
636 So. 2d 502 (Fla. 1994) / 3.6(a) (formerly 3.04(b)), 3.6(c), 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.7
639 So. 2d 602 (Fla. 1994) / 6.1, 6.5, 7.1
657 So. 2d 1152 (Fla. 1995) / 2.5 (formerly 3.10), 8.6, 8.7, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.11, 21.1, 21.2
665 So. 2d 212 (Fla. 1995) / 3.5(a) (formerly 3.01), 3.10 (formerly 2.05), 3.12 (formerly 2.08), 6.3, 6.5, 7.8, 7.11, 13.2, 15.1, 25.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4
678 So. 2d 1224 (Fla. 1996) / 7.11
690 So. 2d 1263 (Fla. 1997) / 7.11
697 So. 2d 84 (Fla. 1997) / 3.3(e) (formerly 3.05(e)), 3.3(f) (formerly 3.05(f)), 3.5(b) (formerly 3.01(a)), 3.6(b) (formerly 3.04(b)(2)), 3.6(l) (formerly 3.04(h)), 3.7 (formerly 2.03), 6.4, 7.2, 7.4, 8.1, 8.14, 8.15, 8.16, 8.17, 11.5, 11.6, 11.9, 13.1, 15.2, 15.3, 25.9, 25.10, 25.11, 25.12, 25.13, 25.14, 25.15
723 So. 2d 123 (Fla. 1998) / 3.6(j) (formerly 3.04(c)(2)), 3.6(k) (formerly 3.04(i)), 7.8, 7.11, 9.2, 11.7, 28.2, 28.3, LIOS
732 So. 2d 1044 (Fla. 1999) / 3.6(f) (formerly 3.04(d))
765 So. 2d 692 (Fla. 2000) / 2.4 (formerly 3.08), 3.3(f) (formerly 3.05(f)), 8.5, 8.8, 10.19, 11.13, 25.6, 25.18, 28.1, 28.6, 28.7, 28.8, 29.14
777 So. 2d 366 (Fla. 2000) / 3.13 (formerly 2.09), 32
789 So. 2d 954 (Fla. 2000) / 3.6(f) (formerly 3.04(d))
795 So. 2d 50 (Fla. 2001) / 3.7 (formerly 2.03)
824 So. 2d 881 (Fla. 2002) / 2.6, 16.1, 16.3, 16.5, 16.6, 30, 31
850 So. 2d 1272 (Fla. 2003) / 3.13 (formerly 2.09), 8.20, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 13.1, 14.1, 26.2, 26.3, 26.4, 26.5, 26.6, 26.7, 26.8
869 So. 2d 1205 (Fla. 2004) / 3.6(h) (formerly 3.04(f))
Deletion of obsolete drug abuse instruction
911 So. 2d 1220 (Fla. 2005) / 7.7
911 So. 2d 766 (Fla. 2005) / 3.6(f) (formerly 3.04(d)), 3.6(g) (formerly 3.04(e)), 3.10 (formerly 2.05), 14.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 30, 31
915 So. 2d 609 (Fla. 2005) / 14.1
930 So. 2d 612 (Fla. 2006) / 3.6(f), 3.6(g)
937 So. 2d 1092 (Fla. 2006) / 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.12
939 So. 2d 1052 (Fla. 2006) / 3.6(a), 3.6(b), 3.6(d)
946 So. 2d 1061 (Fla. 2006) / 7.7, 7.8, 7.9
947 So. 2d 1159 (Fla. 2007) / 3.6(g)
953 So. 2d 495 (Fla. 2007) / 8.6, 8.7(a), 8.7(b), 8.8, 10.15, 13.2, 13.21
958 So. 2d 361 (Fla. 2007) / 28.9, 28.9(a), 28.11, 28.11(a)
962 So. 2d 310 (Fla. 2007) / 6.3, 6.3(a),8.4, 8.4(a), 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 8.14, 10.16, 11.1, 13.1, 13.5(a), 13.4(b), 14.2, 14.3, 20.14, 20.15, 20.16, 20.18, 26.1
969 So. 2d 245 (Fla. 2007) / 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 25.6, 25.7, 25.8, 25.9, 25.10, 25.11, 25.12, 25.13, 25.14, 25.15, 25.16. 11.10(a), 11.10(b)
965 So. 2d 811 (Fla. 2007)
973 So. 2d 432 (Fla. 2008)
976 So. 2d 1081 (Fla. 2008)
978 So. 2d 802 (Fla. 2008)
980 So. 2d 1054 [April 17, 2008]
980 So. 2d 1056 [April 24, 2008]
982 So. 2d 1160 [May 15, 2008]
983 So. 2d 531 [May 22, 2008]
986 So. 2d 563 [July 10, 2008]
994 So. 2d 1038 [October 16, 2008]
995 So. 2d 476 [October 30, 2008]
995 So. 2d 489 [October 30, 2008]
996 So. 2d 854 [November 26, 2008]
996 So. 2d 851 [November 26, 2008]
996 So. 2d 851 [November 26, 2008]
997 So. 2d 403 [December 11, 2008]
998 So. 2d 1138 [December 18, 2008]
3 So. 3d 1172 [February 26, 2009]
6 So. 3d 574 [February 26, 2009]
18 So. 3d 523 [July 9, 2009]
22 So. 3d 17 [October 29, 2009]
27 So. 3d 640 [January 7, 2010]
41 So. 3d 853 [April 8, 2010]
44 So. 3d 565 [July 1, 2010]
48 So. 3d 41 [October 7, 2010]
52 So. 3d 595 [October 21, 2010]
53 So. 3d 1017 [January 6, 2011]
73 So. 3d 136 [September 8, 2011]
75 So. 3d 210 [October 13, 2011]
75 So. 3d 207 [October 13, 2011]
87 So. 3d 679 [February 9, 2012]
85 So. 3d 1090 [March 29, 2012]
95 So. 3d 868 [May 17, 2012]
95 So. 3d 868 [May 17, 2012 REVISED]
141 So. 3d 132 [November 21, 2012]
109 So. 3d 721 [February 14, 2013]
112 So. 3d 1211 [April 18, 2013]
141 So. 3d 132 [April 25, 2013] Revised
113 So. 3d 754 [May 9, 2013]
132 So. 3d 1124 [May 30, 2013]
116 So. 3d 1223 [June 20, 2013]
121 So. 3d 520 [August 29, 2013]
122 So. 3d 302 [September 4, 2013]
122 So. 3d 263 [September 4, 2013]
123 So. 3d 54 [September 26, 2013]
126 So. 3d 248 [November 14, 2013]
131 So. 3d 692 [November 21, 2013]
131 So. 3d 720 [December 5, 2013]
131 So. 3d 755 [December 5, 2013]
132 So. 3d 1124 [February 6, 2014] REVISED
137 So. 3d 995 [April 24, 2014]
140 So. 3d 992 [June 5, 2014]
141 So. 3d 1201 [June 26, 2014]
143 So. 3d 893 [July 10, 2014]
146 So. 3d 1110 [August 28, 2014]
148 So. 3d 1204 [August 28, 2014]
152 So. 3d 475 [September 11, 2014]
152 So. 3d 529 [December 4, 2014]
153 So. 3d 192 [December 11, 2014]
156 So. 3d 495 [January 22, 2015]
157 So. 3d 1027 [February 5, 2015]
163 So. 3d 478 [April 30, 2015]
163 So. 3 161 [June 2, 2015]
SC14-2343 [June 18, 2015]
SC15-368 [Sept. 24, 2015]
SC1-2597 [October 8, 2015] / 2.4, 2.7, 3.3(f), 3.8(a), 8.18, 8.19, 11.11, 14.5, 14.6, 21.5, 21.6, 28.13
28.4, 28.82, 28.84
3.6(f), 3.6(g), 11.10, 28.6, 28.7, 28.8, 28.81, 28.83, 28.85, 29.13, 29.15, 29.16
2.11
11.16, 11.16(a)
20.13, 20.17
10.19, 11.13, 11.13(a)-(b), 11.13(c)-(d), 11.13(e)-(g), 14.7, 15.1,
15.2, 15.3
11.14, 11.14(a)-(h), 11.15, 11.15(a)-(l)
13.1, 14.1
7.2, 7.4, 7.9, 8.5(a), 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 29.13(a)
8.7(b), 11.2, 11.3, 11.6, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5, 23.6, 23.7, 23.8, 23.9
3.3(d), 3.5(c), 16.7, 16.8, 16.9, 16.10, 16.11, 21.7
3.12(a), 3.12(c), 3.12(d)
21.1
21.2
7.7
11.10(c), 11.10(d). 11.10(e), 11.10(f)
16.12, 25.19, 29.13(b)
7.8, 7.8(a), 10.18, 11.17(a), 11.17(b), 11.17(c), 11.17(d), 15.4, 28.1, 28.1(a), 28.2, 28.3, 28.5(a), 28.14, 28.15, 28.16, 28.17
28.1(a)
7.11
3.3(g), 3.6(f), 3.6(g), 3.6(h), 11.14(e)
7.7
10.6(a), 12.4, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 21.8
11.8, 11.9, 11.10, 11.11, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5, 23.6, 23.7
QUALIFICATIONS INSTRUCTION, 1.1, 2.1, 3.13
7.3
28.6, 28.7, 28.8, 28.81, 28.82, 28.83, 28.84, 28.85, 3.3(a), 3.3(b), 3.3(c), 3.3(e), 3.3(f)
7.7
16.3
2.13, 3.8(a), 3.10, 13.3, 13.4, 14.8, 16.4(a), 24.6, 28.14, 28.15,
28.16, 28.17, 29.14
11.14, 11.14(a), 11.14(b), 11.14(c), 11.14(d), 11.14(e), 11.14(f), 11.14(g), 11.14(h), 11.14(i), 11.15(a), 11.15(b), 11.15(c), 11.15(d), 11.15(e), 11.15(f), 11.15(g), 11.15(h), 11.15(i), 11.15(j), 11.15(k), 11.15(l)
Qualifications Instruction, 1.001, 1.01, 2.08, 3.6(k), 3.9, 3.10, 6.4, 10.15(a),11.17, 28.5(a)
3.10
3.6(m), 3.6(n), 3.9(f), 3.13
11.10(c), 13.1, 14.1
25.9, 25.10, 25.11, 25.12, 25.13
3.6(n)
11.14, 11.14(g), 11.14(h), 11.15(b), 11.15(i), 11.15(k), 11.15(l)
6.6
11.16(a)
14.2
2.2, 2.3, 3.3(h), 3.6(d), 3.6(e)(1), 3.6(e)(2), 3.9, 3.9(a), 3.9(b), 3.9(c), 4.4, 21.16, 22.15, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5, 23.6, 23.7, 23.8
11.13, 11.13(a), 11.13(b), 11.13(c), 11.13(d), 11.13(e), 11.13(f), 11.13(g), 11.13(h), 11.17(a), 11.17(b), 11.17(c), 11.17(d), 13.5, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.5, 16.6
19.7, 26.9
8.21
28.5, 28.9, 28.9(a), 28.10, 28.11, 28.11(a), 28.13, 29.20, 29.21, 29.22, 29.23, 29.24, 29.25
2.14, 3.6(o), 8.22, 10.1, 10.5, 10.15, 11.10(g), 12.1, 14.8, 16.11, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 20.19, 21.9, 21.10, 21.11, 21.12, 21.13, 28.3, 28.4(a), 28.12, 29.13(c), 29.17
2.4, 3.8(a), 8.2, 8.6, 8.7(a), 8.7(b), 8.7(c), 8.7(d), 8.12, 8.15, 8.24, 10.6, 14.9, 16.12, 21.8, 21.14, 21.15, 28.5(a), 29.18
6.6
6.2, 6.3, 6.3(a), 7.2, 7.4
14.2
8.25
2.7, 3.6(k), 8.23, 21.1, 21.2, 21.4, 21.5, 21.6, 22.5, 25.15(a), 29.13, 29.13(a)
7.3, 7.5, 7.6, 7.11, 11.18, 12.1, 12.2, 12.9, 14.10, 28.14, 28.15, 28.16, 28.17, 29.3
6.1, 10.20, 10.21, 11.14, 11.14(a), 11.14(b), 11.14(c), 11.14(d), 11.14(e), 11.14(f), 11.14(g), 11.15, 11.15(a), 11.15(b), 11.15(c), 11.15(d), 11.15(e), 11.15(f), 11.15(g), 11.15(h), 11.15(i), 11.15(j), 11.15(k), 11.19, 20.20, 22.15
9.1, 9.2, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, Grand Jury Handbook, Grand Jury Instructions
Qualifications Instruction, 1.1, 2.1, 3.13, Qualifications Instruction, 1.001, 1.01, 2.08
25.2, 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, 25.6, 25.7, 25.8, 25.9, 25.10, 25.11, 25.12, 25.13, 25.14, 25.15, 25.16, 25.17, 25.18, 29.20, 25.21
9.1, 9.2
1.6, 2.1(a), 2.1(b), 2.1(c), 2.1(d), 2.5, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 29.16(a)
3.8(b), 11.7, 11.10(a), 11.10(b), 11.10(c), 11.10(d), 11.10(e), 11.11, 11.13, 11.17(a), 11.17(b), 11.20, 11.21, 15.5
28.4, 28.6, 28.7, 28.8, 28.8(a), 28.8(b), 28.8(c), 28.8(d), 28.8(e), 28.18
9.1, 9.2
20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7, 20.8, 20.9, 20.10, 20.11, 20.12, 22.16
7.9, 11.10(f), 11.10(g), 13.1, 14.9, 20.15, 20.16, 20.21, 22.5, 22.6, 22.7, 22.8, 22.9, 22.10, 22.11, 23.8, 29.24, 29.25

HOW TO USE THE INSTRUCTIONS

Boldface type, brackets, parentheses, and italics have been used to give certain directions. These are as follows:

Boldface type is used exclusively to identify passages the trial judge should speak aloud to the jury. A paragraph typeset as follows, for example, should be read aloud.

The defendant is charged with the crime of kidnapping. To prove this charge the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt.

Brackets are used exclusively to express variables within the text that is to be spoken aloud to the jury. In a sentence typeset as follows, for example, only the applicable variables enclosed in brackets should be read aloud.

The defendant reasonably believed [a danger] [an emergency] threatened significant harm to [himself] [herself].

Bracketed material will always appear in boldface because some or all of the enclosed words must be spoken aloud with the instruction.

Parentheses are used exclusively to signify the need to insert a proper name, a specific crime, or some other variable that must be supplied by the trial judge. For example, in the following sentence the designations in parentheses should be replaced with the proper name of the defendant and the name of the crime charged.

It is not entrapment if (defendant) had the predisposition to commit (crime charged).

To avoid confusion, the material enclosed in parentheses is not typeset in bold. The words in parentheses are not spoken aloud with the text; they merely serve as signals to insert names, titles, or other words that should be spoken aloud.

Italics are used exclusively to give directions to the trial judge. For example in the following sentence, the words in italics direct the judge to give only one of several choices that follow:

Give 3(a), (b), or (c) as applicable.

Every word or phrase set in italics is essentially a note or instruction to the judge. Italics are used to indicate that the material is explanatory and that it should not be read to the jury.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

PART ONE: GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

1 Instructions Before Trial

2 Instructions During Trial

3 Final Charge to the Jury

4 Supplemental Instructions

PART TWO: INSTRUCTIONS ON CRIMES

5 Inchoate Crimes

6 Attempted Homicide

7 Homicide

8 Assault and Battery

9 Kidnapping

10 Weapons Offenses

11 Sex Offenses

12 Arson and Criminal Mischief

13 Burglary and Trespass

14 Theft and Dealing in Stolen Property

15 Robbery

16 Child Abuse

17 Forgery and Worthless Checks

18 Perjury

19 Bribery

20 Fraud

21 Obstruction of Justice

22 Gambling

23 Prostitution

24 Obscenity

25 Drug Abuse

26 Racketeering

27 Escape

28 Transportation Offenses

29 Miscellaneous Crimes

PART THREE: GRAND JURY PROCEEDINGS

30 Florida Grand Jury Handbook

31 Florida Grand Jury Instructions

PART FOUR: SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS

32 Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators

Appendix

Schedule of Lesser Included Offenses

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE: GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

Qualifications Instruction

1 Instructions Before Trial

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Jury Selection [Reserved]

1.3 Challenges to Jurors [Reserved]

1.4 Statement of the Charge [Reserved]

1.5 Questioning in Capital Cases [Reserved]

1.6 Pro Se Defendant

2 Instructions During Trial

2.1 Preliminary Instructions

2.1(a) Note-Taking by Jurors

2.1(b) Jury to be Guided by Official English Translation/Interpretation

2.1(c) Questions by Jurors

2.1(d) Insanity – Psychotropic Medication

2.2 Instruction on Edited Recording

2.3 Stipulations

2.4 Evidence of Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts

2.5 Conviction of Certain Crimes as Impeachment

2.6 Use of Transcripts of Recordings

2.7 Closing Argument