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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 847
OBSCENITY
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847.03 Officer to seize obscene material.Whenever any officer arrests any person charged with any offense under s. 847.011, the officer shall seize said obscene material and take the same into his or her custody to await the sentence of the court upon the trial of the offender.
History.s. 3, ch. 7359, 1917; RGS 5440; CGL 7583; s. 7, ch. 86-238; s. 1352, ch. 97-102; s. 4, ch. 2019-45.

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EAR v. State, 4 So. 3d 614 (Fla. 2009).

Cited 55 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2009 WL 217979

...f a "criminal street gang"); (4) once the State has satisfactorily established the legal existence of a "criminal street gang," it must prove, through proper evidence, that the juvenile offender satisfied " two or more " of the criteria presented in section 847.03(2), Florida Statutes (2007) (emphasis supplied), " at the time " that he or she committed the underlying offense, section 985.433(6)(a), Florida Statutes (2007) (emphasis supplied); and (5) there is a meaningful statutory distinction between a "criminal street gang member" under section 847.03(2), Florida Statutes (2007), and a "criminal street gang associate" under section 874.03(4)(a), Florida Statutes (2007) (i.e., section 985.433(7), Florida Statutes (2007) — the statute addressing juvenile disposition hearings — simply does not address "criminal street gang associates")....
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E.A.R. v. State, 4 So. 3d 614 (Fla. 2009).

Cited 34 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 34 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 120, 2009 Fla. LEXIS 150

..."criminal street gang"); (4) once the State has satisfactorily established the legal existence of a "criminal street gang,” it must prove, through proper evidence, that the juvenile offender satisfied “two or more " of the criteria presented in section 847.03(2), Florida Statutes (2007) (emphasis supplied), “at the time ” that he or she committed the underlying offense, section 985.433(6)(a), Florida Statutes (2007) (emphasis supplied); and (5) there is a meaningful statutory distinction between a "criminal street gang member” under section 847.03(2), Florida Statutes (2007), and a “criminal street gang associate” under section 874.03(4)(a), Florida Statutes (2007) (i.e., section 985.433(7), Florida Statutes (2007) — the statute addressing juvenile disposition hearings — simply does not address “criminal street gang associates")....
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Carroll v. City of Orlando, 311 F. Supp. 967 (M.D. Fla. 1970).

Cited 7 times | Published | District Court, M.D. Florida | 1970 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12803

...operator of the theatre in which the film was exhibited. The basis of the seizure and arrest was the alleged obscenity of the film under the provisions of City Ordinance Sec. 43.56-1 of the City of Orlando and Florida Statutes, Sections 847.011 and 847.03, F.S.A....
...of the moving picture film in question. The seizure of the film must be suppressed and the film accordingly returned to the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs seek to enjoin the defendant from proceeding with prosecutions against them, as well as from enforcing Section 847.03 of the Florida Statutes, F.S.A....
...We retain jurisdiction for the purposes of hereafter entering any orders necessary to enforce the views expressed herein. Delta Book Distributors, Inc. v. Cronvich, supra. We decline to pass on the constitutionality of Florida Statutes, Sections 847.011 and 847.03, F.S.A....

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