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Florida appeals, preservation, jurisdiction, standards of review, and appellate court procedure.
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Florida Supreme Court and DCA opinions, appellate procedure, preservation, and court-specific updates.
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Articles / Jun 25, 2026
FloridaScore begins building a single feed for Florida appellate opinions
The first FloridaScore editorial feed is designed around official opinions, court/date metadata, practice tags, primary-source links, and reviewable summaries.
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Opinions / Florida Supreme Court / Jul 24, 2026
James Aren Duckett v. State of Florida
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the circuit court’s summary denial of James Aren Duckett’s sixth successive postconviction motion and his second post-warrant motion for DNA testing. The Court held the DNA motion was procedurally barred and also failed because the items identified did not contain testable DNA. It also rejected Duckett’s due-process claim because he did not show bad faith by the State in the testing that consumed the earlier sample.
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Opinions / Florida Supreme Court / Jul 21, 2026
Dominick A. Occhicone v. State of Florida
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the denial of Dominick A. Occhicone’s second successive postconviction motion and denied his motion for a stay of execution. The Court rejected his public-records, equal-protection, age-based Eighth Amendment, execution-pace, and seven-to-five jury recommendation claims. The decision emphasizes the Court’s application of colorable-claim, timeliness, and existing constitutional limits in post-warrant capital litigation.
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Florida criminal appellate opinions, preservation, suppression, sentencing, and postconviction issues.
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First District Court of Appeal
Florida's First DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Second District Court of Appeal
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Third District Court of Appeal
Florida's Third DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Florida's Fourth DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Florida's Fifth DCA appellate opinions and FloridaScore summaries when published.
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Civil Litigation
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Jury Instructions
Florida jury-instruction preservation, standard instructions, and trial-error review.
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Expert Witnesses
Florida expert-witness admissibility, discovery, Daubert, and trial preservation topics.
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Fourth Amendment
Search, seizure, warrant, probable-cause, and suppression issues in Florida criminal practice.
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Traffic stops, vehicle searches, inventory searches, probable cause, and suppression practice.
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Florida DUI opinions, suppression issues, implied consent, breath testing, and appellate preservation.
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Florida firearm enhancements, possession offenses, sentencing points, and appellate issues.
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Miranda
Custody, interrogation, invocation, waiver, suppression hearings, and appellate preservation.
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Florida insurance coverage, UM/UIM, bad faith, claim-file discovery, and appellate opinions.
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Florida lien issues for personal-injury practice, settlement administration, reductions, and source-material tracking.
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Civil Procedure
Florida civil procedure, discovery, fees, appellate preservation, and procedural defaults.
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Florida Supreme Court
The state's highest court, including discretionary review, certified questions, constitutional issues, rules, and statewide legal questions.
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Suppression, sentencing, probation, DUI, firearm, evidence, and appellate updates for Florida criminal defense lawyers.
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Florida family-law appellate and procedure updates as FloridaScore publishes them.
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Articles / Jun 22, 2026
Miranda suppression issues turn on the trial record more than the slogan
Recent defense practice notes emphasize custody, interrogation, invocation, waiver, and whether the factual record was developed before appeal.