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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 918
CONDUCT OF TRIAL
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F.S. 918.06
918.06 Separation and detention of jurors; admonition by court.The court shall admonish the jury that it is their duty not to converse among themselves or with anyone else on a subject connected with the trial or to form or express an opinion on a subject connected with the trial until the cause is submitted to them. When the jurors leave the jury box, the court may direct that the jury be kept together in the charge of a proper officer or allow them to separate. If the court permits the jurors to separate, it shall admonish them not to view the place where the offense appears to have been committed.
History.s. 211, ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(219); s. 115, ch. 70-339.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 918.06
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 918.06.



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

CHERINGTON, Sr. v. STATE, 24 So. 3d 658 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

. . . community sanction violation is committed by a violent felony offender of special concern as defined in s. 918.06 . . .

HERNANDEZ, v. STATE, 572 So. 2d 969 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1990)

. . . State, 486 So.2d 1373 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986); see also § 918.06, Fla.Stat. (1989). . . .

KIGHT, v. STATE, 512 So. 2d 922 (Fla. 1987)

. . . to discharge the jury based on the trial court’s failure to admonish the jury as required by section 918.06 . . . Section 918.06 provides in pertinent part: Separation and detention of jurors; admonition by court. — . . .

J. BERNARD, v. UNITED STATES,, 11 Cl. Ct. 437 (Cl. Ct. 1986)

. . . Party $107.00 10-1 E Casual Corner $ 22.34 10-3 D Gift for Referral $ 31.64 1980 Total $385.68 TOTAL $918.06 . . .

BUSQUET, v. STATE, 498 So. 2d 1353 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

. . . Nor does section 918.06, Florida Statutes (1979), which provides the court with discretion to either . . .

ULLOA, v. STATE, 486 So. 2d 1373 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986)

. . . Presumably, "instructions” refers to the admonitions then required by Section 918.06, Florida Statutes . . . Justice Drew, concurring specially in Raines, would have reversed on the ground that Section 918.06 was . . .

LIVINGSTON, v. STATE, 458 So. 2d 235 (Fla. 1984)

. . . Nor does section 918.06, Florida Statutes (1979), which provides the court with discretion to either . . .

ENGLE, v. STATE, 438 So. 2d 803 (Fla. 1983)

. . . Appellant also contends, in relation to the separation of the jury, that section 918.06, Florida Statutes . . .

TEJEDA- BERMUDEZ, v. STATE, 427 So. 2d 1096 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1983)

. . . jury for the weekend after it had reported the deadlock without the admonitions required by Section 918.06 . . .

McDERMOTT, v. STATE, 383 So. 2d 712 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1980)

. . . to separate overnight for a period of fifteen hours without the admonition now required by Section 918.06 . . .

McNEIL, v. STATE, 208 So. 2d 628 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1968)

. . . court was justified in concluding that the jurors had not violated his admonition given pursuant to § 918.06 . . .

WORTHINGTON, v. STATE, 183 So. 2d 728 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1966)

. . . in examining the complained of instruction, we find that the trial judge adequately complied with § 918.06 . . .

D. HAMILTON, v. STATE, 152 So. 2d 793 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1963)

. . . the scene individually without admonishing the jury to the contrary, in violation of sections 918.05, 918.06 . . .

FERRERI, v. STATE LEE, v. STATE, 109 So. 2d 578 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1959)

. . . Section 918.06, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., requires the court to admonish the jury that it is their duty . . .

KENNICK, v. STATE, 107 So. 2d 59 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1958)

. . . . § 918.06, F.S.A., is mandatory only in its application to the jurors finally sworn to try the issues . . .

RAINES v. STATE, 65 So. 2d 558 (Fla. 1953)

. . . The plain mandate of the Legislature, section 918.06, F.S.A., was violated by the lower court in this . . . jury may be allowed to separate in the course of a criminal trial are expressly delineated by sections 918.06 . . . Section 918.06 provides, in effect, that after the jurors have been sworn but before the cause has been . . . together during the trial but have been allowed to separate in accordance with the provisions of section 918.06 . . .

CHARLIE HOLLOWAY v. STATE OF FLORIDA, 156 Fla. 135 (Fla. 1945)

. . . question relates to the failure of the court to admonish the jurors to remain together, pursuant to Sec. 918.06 . . .