RULE 3.010 | SCOPE
Committee Notes
1972 Amendment. Amended to provide for applicability of rules to vehicular traffic offenses, when made so by the traffic court rules.
1992 Amendment. The rule is amended to refer to “Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure” and “Fla. R. Crim. P.” rather than to “Rules of Criminal Procedure” and “R. Crim. P.” Although the Florida Bar Rules of Criminal Procedure already contains this language, the West publications, Florida Rules of Court (1991) and Florida Criminal Law and Rules (1991), do not. The published version of rule 3.010, In re Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, 272 So.2d 65 (Fla. 1973), and the single published amendment to the rule, In re Amendments to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, 518 So.2d 256 (Fla. 1987), also do not contain these additions. The Florida Bar publication, Florida Criminal Rules and Practice, in a commentary to rule 3.010, indicates that the Florida Supreme Court changed the citation form in an order effective January 1, 1977. The commentary indicates that the order stated in pertinent part:
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The last sentence of Rule 3.010 of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is amended as follows:“These Rules shall be known as the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure and may be cited as Fla. R. Crim. P.”However, these changes were apparently inadvertently omitted when the 1987 amendments were published. The proposed 1992 amendments again incorporate into the rule the language set out in the court’s 1977 order.
The amendments would enable clearer identification of the rules and achieve consistency of style with other sets of court rules, in particular, rule 9.800(i), Fla. R. App. P., which provides that the proper citation to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure is Fla. R. Crim. P.
You might need to reference it during your pursuit of justice.
For instance, you might need to invoke certain rules to protect yourself from judges/lawyers who break the law (see this example of a Florida judge who outright committed perjury).
As always, please get the justice you deserve.
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