Case Title: In Re: Amendments to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.112

Citation: 

Docket Number: SC20-1563

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
 
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No. SC20-1563 
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IN RE:  AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULE OF CRIMINAL 
PROCEDURE 3.112. 
 
April 1, 2021 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
 
This matter is before the Court for consideration of proposed 
amendments to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure.  We have 
jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const. 
 
The Florida Bar’s Criminal Procedure Rules Committee 
(Committee) filed a report to amend rule 3.112, Minimum 
Standards for Attorneys in Capital Cases.  The Committee proposed 
adding a new paragraph to subdivision (d), List of Qualified Conflict 
Counsel, to include a list in each circuit court of counsel 
disqualified pursuant to section 27.7045, Florida Statutes (2020) 
(Capital case proceedings; constitutionally deficient representation) 
 
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to represent individuals either charged with a capital offense or 
sentenced to death. 
 
With slight modification to the Committee’s proposal, we 
amend rule 3.112(d) as follows.  First, we retitle subdivision (d) to 
“Lists of Qualified and Disqualified Conflict Counsel.”  Next, we add 
new subdivision (d)(3), which provides as follows: 
The chief judge for each circuit shall maintain a list of 
counsel who are disqualified to provide capital case 
representation pursuant to section 27.7045, Florida 
Statutes, and such list and any amendments thereto 
shall be forwarded to the chief judge of every other 
circuit.   
 
Accordingly, we amend Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 
3.112 as reflected in the appendix to this opinion.  New language is 
underscored.  The amendments to the rule shall become effective 
July 1, 2021. 
 
It is so ordered. 
CANADY, C.J., and POLSTON, LABARGA, LAWSON, MUÑIZ, 
COURIEL, and GROSSHANS, JJ., concur. 
 
THE FILING OF A MOTION FOR REHEARING SHALL NOT ALTER 
THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THESE AMENDMENTS. 
 
Original Proceedings – Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 
 
Honorable Angela Cote Dempsey, Chair, Criminal Procedure Rules 
Committee, Tallahassee, Florida, Joshua E. Doyle, Executive 
 
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Director, and Mikalla Andies Davis, Staff Liaison, The Florida Bar, 
Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
 
 
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APPENDIX 
Rule 3.112  Minimum Standards for Attorneys in Capital Cases 
(a)-(c)  
[No changes] 
 
(d)  Lists of Qualified and Disqualified Conflict Counsel.   
 
 
(1)-(2) 
[No changes] 
 
 
(3) 
The chief judge for each circuit shall maintain a list of counsel who 
are disqualified to provide capital case representation pursuant to section 27.7045, 
Florida Statutes, and such list and any amendments thereto shall be forwarded to 
the chief judge of every other circuit.  
 
(e)-(l)  
[No changes] 
 
Committee Comments 
[No change] 
 
Criminal Court Steering Committee Note 
[No change]