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Jury Instructions
Florida jury-instruction preservation, standard instructions, and trial-error review.
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Expert Witnesses
Florida expert-witness admissibility, discovery, Daubert, and trial preservation topics.
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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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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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Civil Litigation
Florida civil litigation updates for procedure, discovery, insurance, fees, appellate preservation, and trial practice.
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Fourth Amendment
Search, seizure, warrant, probable-cause, and suppression issues in Florida criminal practice.
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Vehicle Searches
Traffic stops, vehicle searches, inventory searches, probable cause, and suppression practice.
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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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Liens
Florida lien issues for personal-injury practice, settlement administration, reductions, and source-material tracking.
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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.