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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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Practice areas
Appellate
Florida Supreme Court and DCA opinions, appellate procedure, preservation, and court-specific updates.
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Topics
Search and Seizure
Florida search-and-seizure opinions, suppression issues, warrants, stops, and privacy questions.
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Vehicle Searches
Traffic stops, vehicle searches, inventory searches, probable cause, and suppression practice.
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Topics
Appellate Procedure
Florida appeals, preservation, jurisdiction, standards of review, and appellate court procedure.
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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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Search Warrants
Warrant affidavits, Franks issues, omissions, probable cause, and suppression-hearing procedure.
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Criminal Appeals
Florida criminal appellate opinions, preservation, suppression, sentencing, and postconviction issues.
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Courts / First District Court of Appeal
First District Court of Appeal
Florida's First DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Courts / Second District Court of Appeal
Second District Court of Appeal
Florida's Second DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Courts / Third District Court of Appeal
Third District Court of Appeal
Florida's Third DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Courts / Fourth District Court of Appeal
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Florida's Fourth DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Courts / Fifth District Court of Appeal
Fifth District Court of Appeal
Florida's Fifth DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Courts / Sixth District Court of Appeal
Sixth District Court of Appeal
Florida's Sixth DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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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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DUI
Florida DUI opinions, suppression issues, implied consent, breath testing, and appellate preservation.
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Insurance
Florida insurance coverage, UM/UIM, bad faith, claim-file discovery, and appellate opinions.
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Statutes / rules
Fourth Amendment
Federal constitutional search-and-seizure source commonly paired with Florida Article I, section 12 analysis.
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Topics
Fourth Amendment
Search, seizure, warrant, probable-cause, and suppression issues in Florida criminal practice.
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Topics
Cannabis / Marijuana
Florida cannabis search, seizure, possession, hemp, odor, and probable-cause issues.
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Firearms
Florida firearm enhancements, possession offenses, sentencing points, and appellate issues.
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Topics
Miranda
Custody, interrogation, invocation, waiver, suppression hearings, and appellate preservation.
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Topics
Double Jeopardy
Florida double-jeopardy opinions, unit of prosecution, merger, and sentencing issues.
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Topics
Negligence
Florida negligence updates, duty, causation, comparative fault, damages proof, and civil appellate issues.
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Topics
Civil Procedure
Florida civil procedure, discovery, fees, appellate preservation, and procedural defaults.
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Courts / Florida Supreme Court
Florida Supreme Court
The state's highest court, including discretionary review, certified questions, constitutional issues, rules, and statewide legal questions.
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Statutes / rules
Article I, Section 12, Florida Constitution
Florida constitutional search-and-seizure provision linked with Fourth Amendment interpretation.
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Practice areas
Criminal Defense
Suppression, sentencing, probation, DUI, firearm, evidence, and appellate updates for Florida criminal defense lawyers.
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Practice areas
Civil Litigation
Florida civil litigation updates for procedure, discovery, insurance, fees, appellate preservation, and trial practice.
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Practice areas
Family Law
Florida family-law appellate and procedure updates as FloridaScore publishes them.
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Practice areas
DUI
Florida DUI updates on suppression, traffic stops, breath testing, implied consent, and appellate review.
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Sentencing
Florida sentencing, CPC scoresheets, probation violations, enhancements, and appellate sentencing review.