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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. 918.12
918.12 Tampering with jurors.Any person who influences the judgment or decision of any grand or petit juror on any matter, question, cause, or proceeding which may be pending, or which may by law be brought, before him or her as such juror, with intent to obstruct the administration of justice, shall be guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.s. 1, ch. 72-315; s. 1540, ch. 97-102.

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Amendments to 918.12


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 918.12
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S918.12 - OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE - TAMPER WITH JUROR - F: T



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Cases from cite.case.law:

GAMMAGE, v. STATE, 210 So. 3d 97 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2016)

. . . Stat. (2013) (ranking the third-degree felony of tampering with jurors under section 918.12, Florida . . .

GAMMAGE, v. STATE, 181 So. 3d 1256 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2015)

. . . FACTS The State charged Gammage with three counts of tampering with jurors in violation of section 918.12 . . . See § 918.12 (providing that the offense of tampering with jurors is a third-degree felony); § 775.082 . . . The State relies on Nobles in arguing that section 918.12 prohibits an attempt to influence a juror. . . . In analyzing the issue, the court made the following statements: Section 918.12, Florida Statutes! . . . In deciding the issue before it, the Nobles court stated several times that section 918.12 prohibits . . .

SCHMIDTER v. STATE, 103 So. 3d 263 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2012)

. . . information tending to influence summoned jurors as they enter the courthouse may be in violation of section 918.12 . . . a Ninth Judicial Circuit Court judge recently found a jury panel had been tampered with per section 918.12 . . . engaging in the type of expressive conduct as contemplated by this Order may be in violation of section 918.12 . . .

In M. PLANAS,, 356 B.R. 902 (Bankr. S.D. Fla. 2006)

. . . Claim Number 12, filed by LVNV in the amount of $918.12, identifies the creditor as “LVNV Funding LLC . . .

L. NOBLES, v. STATE, 769 So. 2d 1063 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

. . . He contends that the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction under section 918.12, Florida . . . We conclude that section 918.12 prohibits an attempt to influence a member of the jury venire as well . . . Based on these facts, the state charged the defendant with jury tampering in violation of section 918.12 . . . Section 918.12 does not purport to define the class of persons who qualify as jurors, but it is clear . . . Section 918.12, Florida Statutes expressly prohibits an attempt to threaten or influence any person who . . .

BOWDEN, v. STATE WILLIAMS, v. STATE, 402 So. 2d 1173 (Fla. 1981)

. . . Sections 918.12-918.14, relating to tampering with jurors, evidence, and witnesses. . . .

N. B. v., 7 B.T.A. 458 (B.T.A. 1927)

. . . arising from the disallowance of a deduction from gross income in petitioner’s income-tax return of $918.12 . . . loss to the petitioner of $1,106.25 and it left a credit to Howard on the books of Cates & *Co. of $918.12 . . . the brokers of the 100 shares of American Sumatra Tobacco Co. stock, but disallowed the deduction of $918.12 . . .