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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 843
OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE
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843.10 Escape by negligence of officer.If a jailer or other officer, through negligence, suffers a prisoner in her or his custody upon conviction of any criminal charge to escape, she or he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.s. 14, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2589; GS 3510; RGS 5396; CGL 7536; s. 1043, ch. 71-136; s. 1341, ch. 97-102.

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S843.10 - FLIGHT-ESCAPE - OFFICER ALLOW PRISONER ESCAPE BY NEGLIGENCE - M: F

Cases Citing Statute 843.10

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Nicor Int'l Corp. v. El Paso Corp., 318 F. Supp. 2d 1160 (S.D. Fla. 2004).

Cited 4 times | Published | District Court, S.D. Florida | 2004 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9674

...(prohibited use of certain lights); § 843.085, Fla. Stat. (unlawful use of police badges or other indica of authority); § 843.0855, Fla. Stat. (criminal actions under color of law or through use of simulated legal process); § 843.09, Fla. Stat. (escape through voluntary action of officer); § 843.10, Fla....
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State v. Welborn, 676 So. 2d 56 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 6897, 1996 WL 366410

KLEIN, Judge. Appellee was a corrections officer at Glades Correctional Institute when six inmates escaped. He was charged with violating section 843.10, Florida Statutes (1995), which provides as follows: Escape by negligence of officer....
...Because we are unable to discern any distinction between the statute involved in the present case, and the statute involving negligent treatment of children, so far as the constitutional issue is concerned, we affirm the trial court’s conclusion that section 843.10 is unconstitutional....

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