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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLIII
DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter 741
MARRIAGE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
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741.281 Court to order batterers’ intervention program attendance.If a person is found guilty of, has adjudication withheld on, or pleads nolo contendere to a crime of domestic violence, as defined in s. 741.28, that person shall be ordered by the court to a minimum term of 1 year’s probation and the court shall order that the defendant attend and complete a batterers’ intervention program as a condition of probation. The court must impose the condition of the batterers’ intervention program for a defendant under this section, but the court, in its discretion, may determine not to impose the condition if it states on the record why a batterers’ intervention program might be inappropriate. The court must impose the condition of the batterers’ intervention program for a defendant placed on probation unless the court determines that the person does not qualify for the batterers’ intervention program pursuant to s. 741.325. The imposition of probation under this section does not preclude the court from imposing any sentence of imprisonment authorized by s. 775.082.
History.s. 19, ch. 95-195; s. 2, ch. 96-392; s. 8, ch. 2001-50; s. 10, ch. 2002-55; s. 8, ch. 2012-147; s. 1, ch. 2017-156.

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Cases Citing Statute 741.281

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Weiand v. State, 732 So. 2d 1044 (Fla. 1999).

Cited 45 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 1999 WL 125522

...[13] "All fifty states have statutes making spousal abuse a crime." State v. Hickson, 630 So.2d 172, 174 (Fla.1994) (citing Rick Brown, Note, Limitations on Expert Testimony on the Battered Woman Syndrome in Homicide Cases: The Return of the Ultimate Issue Rule, 32 Ariz. L.Rev. 665 (1990)). [14] See also, e.g., § 741.281, Fla....
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State v. Scanes, 973 So. 2d 659 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008).

Cited 2 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 313836

...ry sentence, as opposed to the statutorily required ten-year minimum mandatory sentence set forth in section 775.087, Florida Statutes (2005), as to the Defendant's kidnapping conviction; and (3) fails to impose one year of probation, as required by section 741.281, Florida Statutes (2005)....
...5th DCA 2003) (vacating a sentence, where based upon a court-offered plea, the trial court failed to impose the statutorily mandated three-year minimum mandatory sentence). The trial court also committed reversible error in failing to impose a minimum of one year of probation in this case. Section 741.281, Florida Statutes (2005), requires the imposition of at least one year of probation in domestic violence cases....
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J.C. v. Dep't of Agric. & Consum. Servs., Div. of Licensing (Fla. 1st DCA 2024).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...battery, based on his plea to that offense. In the transcript from that plea hearing, the trial court advised J.C. that he was charged with “battery” and sentenced him to nine months of probation. That would not have been a lawful sentence for domestic violence battery. See § 741.281, Fla....
...(requiring that when a person is sentenced for “a crime of domestic violence, as defined in s. 741.28, that person shall be ordered by the court to a minimum term of 1 year’s probation”). Although J.C. agreed to complete the batterers’ intervention program as established by section 741.281, Florida 1 This statutory subsection is a provision of the Federal Gun Control Act also known as the Lautenberg Amendment. 2 Statutes, this agreement did not convert the conviction of simple battery into a conviction and sentence for a crime of domestic violence....
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Ludwine Francois v. State of Florida (Fla. 4th DCA 2022).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...d uncharged domestic violence incident involving the defendant’s family, the defendant’s convictions for battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence did not qualify her for a batterers’ intervention program. See § 741.281, Fla....
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Ludwine Francois v. State of Florida (Fla. 4th DCA 2022).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...at the defendant complete and pay for a batterers’ intervention program. The defendant’s convictions for battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence did not qualify her for a batterers’ intervention program. See § 741.281, Fla....

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