Florida Senate - 2010                              CS for SB 874
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Aronberg
       
       
       
       
       591-03241-10                                           2010874c1
    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
    4         request the sentencing court to reduce or suspend the
    5         sentence of a person who has been convicted of
    6         violating any felony offense and who provides
    7         substantial assistance in the identification, arrest,
    8         or conviction of any accomplice, accessory,
    9         coconspirator, or principal of the person or other
   10         felon; providing that the arresting agency shall be
   11         given an opportunity to be heard in aggravation or
   12         mitigation in reference to any such motion; providing
   13         that the motion may be filed and heard in camera for
   14         good cause shown; providing that a judge may reduce or
   15         suspend the sentence if the judge finds that the
   16         defendant rendered substantial assistance; providing
   17         an effective date.
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   19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   21         Section 1. Section 921.186, Florida Statutes, is created to
   22  read:
   23         921.186 Substantial assistance.—Notwithstanding any other
   24  law, the state attorney may move the sentencing court to reduce
   25  or suspend the sentence of any person who is convicted of
   26  violating any felony offense and who provides substantial
   27  assistance in the identification, arrest, or conviction of any
   28  of that person’s accomplices, accessories, coconspirators, or
   29  principals or of any other person engaged in criminal activity
   30  that would constitute a felony. The arresting agency shall be
   31  given an opportunity to be heard in aggravation or mitigation in
   32  reference to any such motion. Upon good cause shown, the motion
   33  may be filed and heard in camera. The judge hearing the motion
   34  may reduce or suspend the sentence if the judge finds that the
   35  defendant rendered such substantial assistance.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.