explaining the rationale for the version of Rule 3.390(a) that would eventually be adopted in 1985
How later courts described this case
- explaining the rationale for the version of Rule 3.390(a) that would eventually be adopted in 1985
- "A jury that returns a verdict contrary to the evidence based on feelings of prejudice, bias, or sympathy is an `outlaw' jury, and its verdict will be a miscarriage of justice."
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
PER CURIAM.
This matter is before the Court on Petitions of the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee of The Florida Bar and the Conference of Circuit Judges of Florida to amend Rule 3.390(a), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure.
The Court does not deem this matter an emergency for consideration outside the regular four year cycle pursuant to Rule 2.130(a), Florida Rules of Judicial Administration.
SUNDBERG, C. J., and ADKINS, BOYD, OVERTON, MCDONALD and EHRLICH, JJ., concur.
ALDERMAN, J., dissents with opinion.