IN RE STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES-INSTRUCTION 8.25
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The Court authorizes for publication and use new jury instruction 8.25 concerning the violation of pretrial release conditions for domestic violence charges.
[1] A person who willfully violates a condition of pretrial release, when the original arrest was for an act of domestic violence, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree.
[2] A condition of pretrial release can be violated before a defendant is released from jail.
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The Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases (Committee) has submitted proposed changes to the standard jury instructions and asks that the Court authorize for publication and use new instruction 8.25 (Violation of a Condition of Pretrial Release from a Domestic Violence Charge). We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.
The Committee proposed new instruction 8.25 because there is no existing standard instruction for the crime as defined in section 741.29(6), Florida Statutes (2013).1 The pertinent statute provides as follows: “A person who willfully violates a condition of pretrial release provided in s. 903.047, when the original arrest was for an act of *1202domestic violence as defined in s. 741.28, commits a misdemeanor of the first degree....” § 741.29(6), Fla. Stat. (2013).
Having considered the Committee’s report and the comments submitted to the Committee and the Court, we amend the standard jury instructions as proposed by the Committee. Element number two to instruction 8.25 — i.e., “Before [his][her] trial, (defendant’s) release on the domestic violence charge was set with a condition of (insert condition of pretrial release in Fla. Stat. 903.047)” — reflects the interpretation that one can violate a condition of pretrial release before being released from jail.
New instruction 8.25, as set forth in the appendix to this opinion, is hereby authorized for publication and use. In authorizing the publication and use of this instruction, we express no opinion on its correctness and remind all interested parties that this authorization forecloses neither requesting additional or alternative instructions nor contesting the legal correctness of the instruction. We further caution all interested parties that any comments associated with the instruction reflect only the opinion of the Committee and are not necessarily indicative of the views of this Court as to their correctness or applicability. The instruction as set forth in the appendix shall become effective when this opinion becomes final.
It is so ordered.
POLSTON, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.
APPENDIX
8.25 VIOLATION OF A CONDITION OF PRETRIAL RELEASE FROM A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHARGE § 741.29(6), Fla. Stat.
To prove the crime of Violation of a Condition of Pretrial Release from a Domestic Violence Charge, the State must prove the following four elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
1. (Defendant) was arrested for an act of domestic violence.
2. Before [his][her] trial, (defendant’s) release on the domestic violence charge was set with a condition of (insert condition of pretrial release in Fla. Stat. 903.047).
3. (Defendant) knew that a condition of [his][her] pretrial release was (insert condition).
4. (Defendant) willfully violated that condition of pretrial release by (insert the manner in which the defendant is alleged to have violated pretrial release).
Definitions.
§ 7Í1.28, Fla. Stat.
“Domestic violence” means any assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death of one family or household member by another family or household member.
“Family or household members” means spouses, former spouses, persons related by blood or marriage, persons who are presently residing together as if a family or who have resided together in the past as if a family, and persons who are parents of a child in common regardless of whether they have been married. With the exception of persons who have a child in common, the family or household members must be currently residing or have in the past resided *1203together in the same single dwelling unit.
Patterson v. State, 512 So.2d 1109 (Fla. 1st DCA1987).
“Willfully” means knowingly, intentionally and purposely.
Lesser Included Offenses
Comment
This instruction was adopted in 2014.
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Caldwell v. State (Fla. 4th DCA 2022)…n of (insert condition of pretrial release in Fla. Stat. 903.047)’—reflects the interpretation that one can violate a condition of pretrial release before being released from jail.” In re Standard Jury Instructions in Crim. Cases— Instruction 8.25, 141 So. 3d 1201, 1202 (Fla. 2014) (emphasis added). The holding in Santiago v. Ryan, 109 So. 3d 848 (Fla. 3d DCA 2013), further supports our holding. In that case, the defendant was arrested and charged with aggravated stalking. Id. at 849. At first appearance…
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- Patterson v. State, 512 So. 2d 1109 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987)