Bill Text: FL S0874 | 2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Substantial Assistance [SPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-28 - Placed on Special Order Calendar; Read 2nd time -SJ 00956; Substituted CS/HB 615 -SJ 00956; Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 615 (Ch. 2010-218) -SJ 00956 [S0874 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S0874-Comm_Sub.html

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Florida Senate - 2010                              CS for SB 874 
 
By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Aronberg 
591-03241-10                                           2010874c1 
1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to substantial assistance; creating s. 
3         921.186, F.S.; permitting the state attorney to 
4         request the sentencing court to reduce or suspend the 
5         sentence of a person who has been convicted of 
6         violating any felony offense and who provides 
7         substantial assistance in the identification, arrest, 
8         or conviction of any accomplice, accessory, 
9         coconspirator, or principal of the person or other 
10         felon; providing that the arresting agency shall be 
11         given an opportunity to be heard in aggravation or 
12         mitigation in reference to any such motion; providing 
13         that the motion may be filed and heard in camera for 
14         good cause shown; providing that a judge may reduce or 
15         suspend the sentence if the judge finds that the 
16         defendant rendered substantial assistance; providing 
17         an effective date. 
18 
19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
20 
21         Section 1. Section 921.186, Florida Statutes, is created to 
22  read: 
23         921.186 Substantial assistance.—Notwithstanding any other 
24  law, the state attorney may move the sentencing court to reduce 
25  or suspend the sentence of any person who is convicted of 
26  violating any felony offense and who provides substantial 
27  assistance in the identification, arrest, or conviction of any 
28  of that person’s accomplices, accessories, coconspirators, or 
29  principals or of any other person engaged in criminal activity 
30  that would constitute a felony. The arresting agency shall be 
31  given an opportunity to be heard in aggravation or mitigation in 
32  reference to any such motion. Upon good cause shown, the motion 
33  may be filed and heard in camera. The judge hearing the motion 
34  may reduce or suspend the sentence if the judge finds that the 
35  defendant rendered such substantial assistance. 
36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.