Florida Statute 924.055 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 924
CRIMINAL APPEALS AND COLLATERAL REVIEW

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924.055 Postconviction review in capital cases; legislative findings and intent.—It is the intent of the Legislature to reduce delays in capital cases and to ensure that all appeals and postconviction actions in capital cases are resolved as soon as possible after the date a sentence of death is imposed in the circuit court. A person sentenced to death or that person’s capital postconviction counsel must file any postconviction legal action in compliance with the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure.

History.—s. 8, ch. 96-290; s. 5, ch. 2000-3; s. 13, ch. 2013-216.

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Allen v. Butterworth, 756 So. 2d 52 (Fla. 2000).

Cited 53 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2000 WL 381484

...eath. See ch.2000-3, preamble, Laws of Fla.; Fla. CS for HB 1-A, at 3 ("Whereas... there must be a prompt and efficient administration of justice following any sentence of death ordered by the courts of this state."); see also id. at 14-15 (amending § 924.055, Fla....

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Crow v. State, 866 So. 2d 1257 (Fla. 1st DCA 2004).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2004 WL 305748

...corpus, the Legislature lacks the authority to define the circumstances in which it may be granted. This point is illustrated by Allen v. Butterworth, 756 So.2d 52 (Fla.2000), a case in which the supreme court declared unconstitutional a portion of section 924.055, Florida Statutes (2000), the Death Penalty Reform Act....

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Amendments to Florida Rules of Crim. Procedure—Capital Postconviction Pub. Records Prod., 708 So. 2d 913 (Fla. 1998).

Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 23 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 37, 1998 Fla. LEXIS 5, 1998 WL 19211

in accord with time standards provided in section 924.055, Florida Statutes (1997). The real and immediate