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Fourth District: PSIs

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

To impose a habitual offender sentence, Florida law requires a pre-sentence investigation. That requirement is said to amount to a right to a PSI before being sentenced as a habitual offender. Can counsel waive that right, or is it the sort of right only the individual should be able to waive? In this decision, the Fourth District explained that counsel can waive the right to a PSI. In a

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on July 22, 2009 (boomark / email).