In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES—REPORT NO. 2015-03

191 So. 3d 291, 2016 WL 1375710
CourtSupreme Court of Florida
DecidedApril 7, 2016
DocketSC15-1170
StatusPublished
Cited by6 cases

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In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES—REPORT NO. 2015-03, 191 So. 3d 291, 2016 WL 1375710 (Fla. 2016).

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

The Supreme Court Committee on Stan-, dard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases has submitted proposed changes to the standard jury instructions and asks that the Court authorize the amended standard instructions. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

The Committee proposes amending the following existing standard criminal jury instructions: 25.2 (Sale, Purchase, Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession with Intent to Sell, Purchase, Manufacture, or Deliver a Controlled Substance); 25.3 (Sale, Purchase, Delivery, or Possession in Excess of Ten Grams of a Controlled Substance); 25.4 (Delivery of a Controlled Substance to or Use of Minor); 25.5 (Bringing a Controlled Substance into the State); 25.6 (Sell, Manufacture, Deliver, or Possession with Intent to Sell, Manufacture or Deliver a Controlled Substance in Specified Locations); 25.7 (Possession of a Controlled Substance); 25.8 (Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud, Etc.); 25.9 (Trafficking in Cannabis); 25.10 (Trafficking in Cocaine); 25.11 (Trafficking in [Morphine] [Opium] [Hydromorphone] [Heroin] [ (Specified Substance Alleged) ]); 25.12 (Trafficking in Phencycli-dine); 25.13 (Trafficking in Methaqualone); 25.14 (Use or Possession with Intent to Use Drug Paraphernalia); 25.15 (Delivery, Possession with Intent to Deliver, or Manufacture with Intent to Deliver Drug Paraphernalia); 25.16 (Delivery of Drug Paraphernalia to a Minor); 25.17 (Contraband in County Detention Facility); 25.18 (Contraband in Juvenile [Detention Facility] [Commitment Program]); 25.20 (Possession of Contraband [In] [Upon the Grounds of] a State Correctional Institution); and 25.21 ([Introduction] [Rémoval] of Contraband [Into] [From] a State Correctional Institution). The Committee also proposes the following new jury instructions: 25.11(a) (Trafficking in Hydroco-done); 25.11(b) (Trafficking in Oxycodone); 25.13(a) (Trafficking in [Amphetamine] [Methamphetamine]); 25.13(b) (Trafficking in Flunitrazepam); 25.13(c) (Trafficking in [GHB] [GBL] [1,4-Butanediol]); 25.13(d) (Trafficking in Phenethylamines (Includes MDMA)); and 25.13(e) (Trafficking in LSD). The Committee published its proposals in The Florida Bar News. One comment was received by the Committee. The Court did not publish the proposals after they were filed.

Having considered the Committee’s report and the comment submitted to the Committee, we amend the standard jury instructions as proposed by the Committee, with one exception, and authorize them for publication and use. While the Committee expressed the belief that the existing explanation of constructive possession in the majority of instructions they sought to amend was deficient, the Court is unaware of any case law that has held the current explanation of constructive possession deficient or that has redefined constructive possession from that in the existing drug trafficking jury instructions. For that reason, we decline to alter the explanation of constructive possession in the jury instructions herein under consideration.

*293 The new and amended criminal jury instructions, as set forth in the appendix to this opinion, are hereby authorized for publication and use. 1 New language is indicated by underlining, and deleted language is indicated by struck-through type. In authorizing the publication and use of these instructions, we-express no opinion on their correctness and remind all interested parties that this authorization forecloses neither requesting additional or alternative instructions nor contesting the legal correctness of the instructions. We further caution all interested parties that any comments associated with the instructions reflect only the opinion of the Committee and are not necessarily indicative of the -views of this Court as to their correctness or applicability. The instructions as set forth in the appendix shall be effective when this opinion becomes final.

It is so ordered.

LABARGA, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, POLSTON, and PERRY, JJ., concur.

APPENDIX

25.2 SALE, PURCHASE, MANUFACTURE, DELIVERY, OR POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO SELL, PURCHASE, MANUFACTURE, OR DELIVER A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE

§ 893.13(l)(a) and (2)(a), Fla. Stat. ..

Certain drugs and chemical substances are by law known as .“controlled substances.” (Specific substance alleged) is a controlled substance.

To prove the crime of (crime charged), the State must prove the following(applicable-number-) three elements beyond a reasonable doubt:

1. (Defendant) [sold] [manufactured] [delivered] [purchased] [possessed with intent to [sell] [manufacture] [deliver] [purchase]] a certain substance.
2. The substance was (specific substance alleged).

Give if possession is charged.

3. (Defendant) had knowledge of the presence of the substance.

Delivery of 20 Grams or Less of Cannabis without consideration is a misdemean- or. See § 893.18(3), Fla. Stat. If the State charges the felony of Delivery of More Than 20 Grams of Cannabis, the jury must make a finding as to the weight. Give if-applicable.

3, or 4. — If you find that (defendant) is guilty of Delivery of Cannabis, you must then determine if the State proved beyond a reasonable doubt that theThe cannabis weighed more than 20 grams.

Definitions. Give as applicable.

Cannabis. §§§ 893.02(3); 893.13(3); 893.13(6)(b), Fla. Stats.

See Comment section for medical marijuana.

Cannabis means all parts of any plant of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not and the seeds thereof.

*294 Sell.

“Sell” means to transfer or deliver something to another person in exchange for money or something of value or a promise of money or something of value.

Manufacture. § 893.02(135)(a), Fla. Stat. '

“Manufacture” means the production, preparation,- paGkagingrlabeling or relabeling, propagation, compounding, cultivating, growing, conversion or — -processing of a controlled substance,-either directly or -indirectly, Manufacturing can be by extraction from -substances-of natural — origin,—or- independently.by means of chemical- synthesis, — It can also-be-by a combination of extraction and chemical — synthesis, propagation, compounding, cultivating, growing, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis,' and includes any packaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container.

Give if applicable.

The term “manufacture” does not include the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance by:

1. A practitioner or pharmacist as an incident to his or her administering or delivering of a controlled substance in the course, of his or her professional practice.

2.

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