House Bill 0421c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999       CS/HBs 421 & 485

        By the Committee on Crime & Punishment and Representatives
    Lacasa and Hart





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to evidence; providing that

  3         evidence of voluntary intoxication is not

  4         admissible for certain purposes; providing an

  5         exception; providing an effective date.

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  7  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  9         Section 1.  Voluntary intoxication; not a defense;

10  evidence not admissible for certain purposes;

11  exception.--Voluntary intoxication resulting from the

12  consumption, injection, or other use of alcohol or other

13  controlled substance as described in chapter 893, Florida

14  Statutes, is not a defense to any offense proscribed by law.

15  Evidence of a defendant's voluntary intoxication is not

16  admissible to show that the defendant lacked the specific

17  intent to commit an offense and is not admissible to show that

18  the defendant was insane at the time of the offense, except

19  when the consumption, injection, or use of a controlled

20  substance under chapter 893, Florida Statutes, was pursuant to

21  a lawful prescription issued to the defendant by a

22  practitioner as defined in s. 893.02, Florida Statutes.

23         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1999.

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