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2012 Florida Statutes
SECTION 06
Separation and detention of jurors; admonition by court.
Separation and detention of jurors; admonition by court.
918.06 Separation and detention of jurors; admonition by court.—The court shall admonish the jury that it is their duty not to converse among themselves or with anyone else on a subject connected with the trial or to form or express an opinion on a subject connected with the trial until the cause is submitted to them. When the jurors leave the jury box, the court may direct that the jury be kept together in the charge of a proper officer or allow them to separate. If the court permits the jurors to separate, it shall admonish them not to view the place where the offense appears to have been committed.
History.—s. 211, ch. 19554, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 8663(219); s. 115, ch. 70-339.