™Your Policy Risk Impact Agent
49 chapters · 985 sections in this title.
Fla. Stat. § 782.02 Justifiable use of deadly force
0.4K chars
The use of deadly force is justifiable when a person is resisting any attempt to murder such person or to commit any felony upon him or her or upon or in any dwelling house in which such person shall be.History.—ss. 4, 5, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2378; ch. 4967, 1901; s. 1, ch. 4964, 1…
Fla. Stat. § 782.03 Excusable homicide
0.5K chars
Homicide is excusable when committed by accident and misfortune in doing any lawful act by lawful means with usual ordinary caution, and without any unlawful intent, or by accident and misfortune in the heat of passion, upon any sudden and sufficient provocation, or upon a sudden…
Fla. Stat. § 782.035 Abrogation of common-law rule of evidence known as “year-and-a-day rule.”
0.4K chars
The common-law rule of evidence applicable to homicide prosecutions known as the “year-and-a-day rule,” which provides a conclusive presumption that an injury is not the cause of death or that whether it is the cause cannot be discerned if the interval between the infliction of t…
Fla. Stat. § 782.04 Murder
7.8K chars
(1)(a) The unlawful killing of a human being:1. When perpetrated from a premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed or any human being;2. When committed by a person engaged in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, any:a. Trafficking offense prohib…