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First and Fourth Districts: State Sandwich Unconstitutional

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

In 2006, the legislature repealed Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 3.250, which provided criminal defendants whose only evidence is no more than their own testimony with the first and last closing arguments. The legislature also enacted a statute that provided the state with the first and last closing argument in criminal cases. Can the legislature do those things? Yes and no. Yes, with a

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).