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Opinions / Florida Supreme Court / Jul 24, 2026
James Aren Duckett v. State of Florida
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court’s summary denial of James Aren Duckett’s sixth successive postconviction motion and his second post-warrant motion for DNA testing. The Court held the DNA motion was procedurally barred and also failed because the items identified did not contain testable DNA. It also rejected Duckett’s due-process claim because he did not show bad faith by the State in the testing that consumed the earlier sample.
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Opinions / Florida Supreme Court / Jul 21, 2026
Dominick A. Occhicone v. State of Florida
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Dominick A. Occhicone’s second successive postconviction motion and denied his motion for a stay of execution. The Court rejected his public-records, equal-protection, age-based Eighth Amendment, execution-pace, and seven-to-five jury recommendation claims. The decision emphasizes the Court’s application of colorable-claim, timeliness, and existing constitutional limits in post-warrant capital litigation.
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Articles / Jun 25, 2026
FloridaScore begins building a single feed for Florida appellate opinions
The first FloridaScore editorial feed is designed around official opinions, court/date metadata, practice tags, primary-source links, and reviewable summaries.
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Articles / Jun 24, 2026
Scoresheet checks defense lawyers should run before sentencing
Severity levels, prior record, victim injury, legal status, and community sanction points remain the common pressure points in Florida CPC scoring.
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Articles / Jun 23, 2026
Proposal-for-settlement fights keep coming back to the good-faith record
Florida civil litigators should build the record around the information available when the proposal was served, not just the verdict delta.
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Articles / Jun 22, 2026
Miranda suppression issues turn on the trial record more than the slogan
Recent defense practice notes emphasize custody, interrogation, invocation, waiver, and whether the factual record was developed before appeal.
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Articles / Jun 20, 2026
Claim-file discovery remains a battleground in insurance cases
UM/UIM and bad-faith disputes continue to turn on timing, privilege logs, work-product objections, and targeted in-camera review.
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Articles / Jun 19, 2026
Rule 3.992 scoresheet form update is now on the FloridaScore watch list
FloridaScore will track official scoresheet forms, effective dates, and links so lawyers can compare calculator output against primary materials.
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Topics
Fourth Amendment
Search, seizure, warrant, probable-cause, and suppression issues in Florida criminal practice.
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Topics
Search and Seizure
Florida search-and-seizure opinions, suppression issues, warrants, stops, and privacy questions.
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Topics
Search Warrants
Warrant affidavits, Franks issues, omissions, probable cause, and suppression-hearing procedure.
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Vehicle Searches
Traffic stops, vehicle searches, inventory searches, probable cause, and suppression practice.
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Cannabis / Marijuana
Florida cannabis search, seizure, possession, hemp, odor, and probable-cause issues.
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Sentencing
Florida sentencing updates, Criminal Punishment Code scoring, enhancements, mitigation, and preservation.
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Topics
Florida Criminal Punishment Code
Scoresheet arithmetic, offense severity levels, CPC worksheet sources, and sentencing-point issues.
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Probation Violations
Violation-of-probation proof, hearsay limits, new-law violations, and revocation procedure.
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DUI
Florida DUI opinions, suppression issues, implied consent, breath testing, and appellate preservation.
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Firearms
Florida firearm enhancements, possession offenses, sentencing points, and appellate issues.
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Miranda
Custody, interrogation, invocation, waiver, suppression hearings, and appellate preservation.
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Double Jeopardy
Florida double-jeopardy opinions, unit of prosecution, merger, and sentencing issues.
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Jury Instructions
Florida jury-instruction preservation, standard instructions, and trial-error review.
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Personal Injury
Florida negligence, damages, insurance, discovery, proposals for settlement, and civil procedure updates.
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Insurance
Florida insurance coverage, UM/UIM, bad faith, claim-file discovery, and appellate opinions.
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Discovery
Florida civil and criminal discovery updates, claim-file disputes, privilege, work product, sanctions, and trial-court procedure.
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Bad Faith
Florida bad-faith litigation, coverage timing, discovery boundaries, and claim-file disputes.
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UM / UIM
Uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage issues, claim-file discovery, and privilege questions.
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Proposals for Settlement
Florida proposal-for-settlement litigation, good faith, fee entitlement, and rule/statute issues.
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Negligence
Florida negligence updates, duty, causation, comparative fault, damages proof, and civil appellate issues.
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Damages
Florida damages issues, proof, setoffs, remittitur, insurance, and preservation in civil and personal-injury cases.
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Liens
Florida lien issues for personal-injury practice, settlement administration, reductions, and source-material tracking.
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Civil Procedure
Florida civil procedure, discovery, fees, appellate preservation, and procedural defaults.
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Appellate Procedure
Florida appeals, preservation, jurisdiction, standards of review, and appellate court procedure.
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Criminal Appeals
Florida criminal appellate opinions, preservation, suppression, sentencing, and postconviction issues.
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Expert Witnesses
Florida expert-witness admissibility, discovery, Daubert, and trial preservation topics.
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Statutes / rules
Florida Criminal Punishment Code
FloridaScore's CPC hub for sentencing scoresheet sources, offense severity charts, and worksheet arithmetic.