Florida Statute 27.03 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title V
JUDICIAL BRANCH

Chapter 27
STATE ATTORNEYS; PUBLIC DEFENDERS; RELATED OFFICES

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27.03 Duties before grand jury.—Whenever required by the grand jury, the state attorney shall attend them for the purpose of examining witnesses in their presence, or of giving legal advice in any matter before them; and he or she shall prepare bills of indictment.

History.—s. 4, ch. 1661, 1868; RS 1345; GS 1780; RGS 3006; CGL 4740; s. 117, ch. 95-147.

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Cases Citing Statute 27.03

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State v. King, 426 So. 2d 12 (Fla. 1982).

Cited 59 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...I would hold that an indictment, concurred in by the state attorney, has the same effect as an information filed by the state attorney for the purpose of proceeding in the adult division of the circuit court. The state attorney shall prepare grand jury indictments. § 27.03, Fla....

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State Ex Rel. Martin v. Michell, 188 So. 2d 684 (Fla. 4th DCA 1966).

Cited 42 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...NOTES [1] Section 10, Declaration of Rights, Constitution of Florida, F.S.A. [2] Article III, Section 20, Constitution of Florida. [3] State v. Clemmons, Fla. 1963, 150 So.2d 231. [4] Article V, Section 6(6), Constitution of Florida. [5] F.S.A. § 27.02. [6] F.S.A. § 27.03....

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State v. Ruiz, 526 So. 2d 170 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988).

Cited 11 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 13 Fla. L. Weekly 1338

Ringel, Searches & Seizures, Arrests and Confessions § 27.3(a)(3), at 27-19 n. 55 (1987). This rule is even

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State v. Famiglietti, 817 So. 2d 901 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002).

Cited 9 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2002 WL 879409

proper administration of justice"); W. VA. CODE § 27-3-1(b)(3)(2001)("(b) Confidential information may

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Schneider v. Currey, 584 So. 2d 86 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 1991 WL 136876

...The injunction ... is intentionally broad in scope and is intended to preclude virtually all actions by a creditor to collect personally from the debtor... . The discharge enjoins judicial actions and informal actions to collect." Norton Bankr.L & Prac § 27.03 (1982)....

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Baxter v. State, 127 So. 3d 726 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 6171262, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 18793

Philip J. Padovano, Florida Appellate Practice § 27:3, & n. 1 (2011 ed.) (“A fundamental error in a criminal

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Am. Fed'n of Musicians, Local 806 v. City of West Palm Beach, 179 So. 2d 134 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1965).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 60 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2209, 1965 Fla. App. LEXIS 3735

and collect a license tax against Local 806. Section 27.3 of the occupational license chapter of the defendant

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Worth Johnson v. Prot. Life Ins. Co. (11th Cir. 2024).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Argued: Nov 13, 2023

in the future. 5 5 Johnson, quoting § 27.3(b) of Bryan Garner’s The Redbook, argues that

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Roger N. Rosier v. State of Florida (Fla. 1st DCA 2019).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

Philip J. Padovano, § 27:3. Fundamental Error, 2 Fla. Prac., Appellate Practice § 27:3 (2018 ed.) (citing

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Andrew H. Warren v. Ron DeSantis (11th Cir. 2024).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Argued: May 2, 2023

...law.” Id. General law requires state attorneys to appear in court “and prosecute or defend on behalf of the state all suits.” Fla. Stat. § 27.02. It charges them with attending grand juries, whenever re- quired. Id. § 27.03....

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Andrew H. Warren v. Ron DeSantis (11th Cir. 2024).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Argued: May 2, 2023

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United States v. Erickson Meko Cambell (11th Cir. 2020).

Published | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

appeal. Wayne R. La Fave et al., Criminal Procedure § 27.3(b) (4th ed. 2015) (noting that the Government can

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Ago (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1976).

Published | Florida Attorney General Reports

...public records within the purview of Ch. 119? SUMMARY: The investigatory records and materials compiled by the state attorney's office prior to the trial of a criminal case pursuant to its statutory investigatory or prosecutorial duties, ss. 27.02 , 27.03 , 27.04 , and 27.255 , F....

...board, bureau, commission, or other separate unit of government created or established by law . . . . [Section 119.011 (2), F. S.] The state attorney is a constitutional officer, s. 17, Art. V, State Const., with duties provided by law, ss. 27.02 , 27.03 , 27.04 , and 27.06 , F....

...Spicola, 238 So.2d 503 , 506 (2 D.C.A. Fla., 1970), also see Widener v. Croft, 184 So.2d 444 (4 D.C.A. Fla., 1966), cert. denied, Croft v. Widener, 192 So.2d 486 (Fla. 1966). The investigative duties of the state attorney's office are outlined in Ch. 27, F. S. Section 27.03 requires the state attorney, at the request of the grand jury, to examine witnesses in their presence, give legal advice, and prepare bills of indictment....

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Crudele v. Accent Realty of Jacksonville, Inc., 541 So. 2d 742 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989).

Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 14 Fla. L. Weekly 901, 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 1832, 1989 WL 33985

Trawick, Trawick’s Florida Practice and Procedure § 27-3, at 411-12 (1988). The reform suggested by Trawick

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