CS/HB 615

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to substantial assistance; creating s.
3	921.186, F.S.; permitting the state attorney to request
4	the sentencing court to reduce or suspend the sentence of
5	a person who has been convicted of violating any felony
6	offense and who provides substantial assistance in the
7	identification, arrest, or conviction of any accomplice,
8	accessory, coconspirator, or principal of the person or
9	other felon; providing that the arresting agency shall be
10	given an opportunity to be heard in aggravation or
11	mitigation in reference to any such motion; providing that
12	the motion may be filed and heard in camera for good cause
13	shown; providing that a judge may reduce or suspend the
14	sentence if the judge finds that the defendant rendered
15	substantial assistance; providing an effective date.
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17	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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19	Section 1.  Section 921.186, Florida Statutes, is created
20	to read:
21	921.186  Substantial assistance.-Notwithstanding any other
22	law, the state attorney may move the sentencing court to reduce
23	or suspend the sentence of any person who is convicted of
24	violating any felony offense and who provides substantial
25	assistance in the identification, arrest, or conviction of any
26	of that person's accomplices, accessories, coconspirators, or
27	principals or of any other person engaged in criminal activity
28	that would constitute a felony. The arresting agency shall be
29	given an opportunity to be heard in aggravation or mitigation in
30	reference to any such motion. Upon good cause shown, the motion
31	may be filed and heard in camera. The judge hearing the motion
32	may reduce or suspend the sentence if the judge finds that the
33	defendant rendered such substantial assistance.
34	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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