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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 782
HOMICIDE
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F.S. 782.02
782.02 Justifiable use of deadly force.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, 1901; GS 3203; RGS 5033; CGL 7135; s. 66, ch. 74-383; s. 1, ch. 75-24; s. 45, ch. 75-298; s. 1197, ch. 97-102.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 782.02
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 782.02.



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Cases Citing Statute 782.02

Total Results: 20

JOSE MIKE ESPICHAN v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: (quoting § 776.012(2), Fla. Stat.); see also § 782.02, Fla. Stat. (2021) (“The use of deadly force is

Joseph William Hamilton v. State of Florida

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-05-29T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: instruction does not accurately reflect section 782.02, Florida Statutes (2021), which states that “[t…person shall be.” Appellant argues that section 782.02 does not require that the use of deadly force be

CARLOS LORENZO GONZALEZ v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2024-04-19T00:00:00-07:00

Snippet: Gonzalez’s trial. This section is based on section 782.02, Florida Statutes (1997), and the applicable felony… portion of the instruction is based on section 782.02, Florida Statutes (1997). The applicable felony…Florida Statutes, which governs homicide, Section 782.02, entitled “Justifiable use of deadly force,”, …dwelling house in which such person shall be. §782.02, Fla. Stat. (1997). Each of these statutes

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report 2019-01

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2019-12-18T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: 126 So. 3d 400 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013). § 782.02, Fla. Stat., and many statutes within Chapter 776…use or threatened use of deadly force, however, § 782.02, Fla. Stat., does not address the concept of stand-your-ground…does not include mere bruises. Section 782.02, Fla. Stat., and many statutes within Chapter 776…the justifiable use of deadly force, however, § 782.02, Fla. Stat., does not address the concept of stand-your-ground…or statutes apply. Give if applicable. § 782.02, Fla. Stat.

Mattison v. Mattison

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2019-03-08T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 266 So. 3d 258

Snippet: court, she had subsequently incurred and paid $ 36,782.02 in mortgage, tax, and insurance expenses on the…trial court awarded a credit to Former Wife of $ 36,782.02 for the aforesaid payments, which it then reduced…separation to trial), resulting in the sum of $ 15,782.02. The court then assessed one-half of this figure

Mattison v. Mattison

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2019-03-08T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 266 So. 3d 258

Snippet: court, she had subsequently incurred and paid $ 36,782.02 in mortgage, tax, and insurance expenses on the…trial court awarded a credit to Former Wife of $ 36,782.02 for the aforesaid payments, which it then reduced…separation to trial), resulting in the sum of $ 15,782.02. The court then assessed one-half of this figure

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases - Report 2017-07 – Corrected Opinion

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2018-12-05T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: bodily harm. Both Chapter 776 and § Section 782.02, Fla. Stat., and many statutes within Chapter 776…the justifiable use of deadly force, however, § 782.02, Fla. Stat., does not address the concept of stand-your-ground…or statutes apply. Give if applicable. § 782.02, Fla. Stat. The use of deadly force is justifiable

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report 2017-07.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2018-11-21T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 257 So. 3d 908

Snippet: Both Chapter 776 and § Section 782.02, Fla. Stat., and many statutes within …justifiable use of deadly force , however, § 782.02, Fla. Stat., does not address the concept of stand-your-ground…statutes apply. Give if applicable. § 782.02, Fla. Stat. The use of deadly force is

ALVIN ARTEAGA v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2018-05-11T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 246 So. 3d 533

Snippet: be read for manslaughter charges); see also §§ 782.02, .03, Fla. Stat. (2007). In support

CATHERINE M. PILEGGI v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2017-11-07T23:53:00-08:00

Snippet: matter” of section 782.02 and in doing so, “implicitly” replaced and repealed section 782.02. Specifically,…section 782.02 is “positively repugnant” with the Stand Your Ground law because section 782.02 does not…instruction was based, in part, on the wording of section 782.02 of the Florida Statutes which provides that: … be. 2 § 782.02, Fla. Stat. (2010). It was also based, in part…given accurately tracks the language of section 782.02 and the Stand Your Ground law, but argues that

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—report 2016-01

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2017-03-09T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 213 So. 3d 680

Snippet: dwollkig-houseln-which-the dcfcndnnt-VTOS-at the timc of-thc killing. § 782.02—Fla, Stafe Excusable Homicide: The

Marty v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2016-09-16T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 210 So. 3d 121, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 13927

Snippet: force. Compare §§ 776.012(2), .031(2), 782.02, with §§ 776.012(1), .031(1). We can…property, see §§ 776.012(2), .031(2), 782.02. This scenario seems even more plausible upon

In Re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—report No. 2014-06

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2016-05-05T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 191 So. 3d 411, 2016 WL 2586287

Snippet: great bodily harm. Both Chapter 776 and § 782.02, Fla. Stat., address the justifiable use of deadly…deadly force. Give if applicable. ■§ 782.02, Fla. Stat. The use of deadly force is justifiable

Campbell v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2014-07-16T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 143 So. 3d 992, 2014 WL 3511138, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 10901

Snippet: as follows: JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE F.S. 782.02 The killing of a human being is justifiable

Smallwood v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2013-05-02T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 113 So. 3d 724, 38 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 271, 2013 WL 1830961, 2013 Fla. LEXIS 887

Snippet: personalized and private information.” Majority op. at 782. Two problems with this line of reasoning are immediately

In re Amendments to Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—Instruction 7.7

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2011-10-13T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 75 So. 3d 210, 2011 WL 4835655

Snippet: the defendant was at the time of the killing. § 782.02, Fla. Stat. Excusable Homicide: The killing of

Odeh v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2011-07-18T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 82 So. 3d 915, 2011 WL 2694434

Snippet: Justifiable Use of Deadly Force, in which section 782.02, Florida Statutes is the statutory basis for the…the justifiable use of deadly force under Section 782.02, the first alternative the judge instructed on

In Re Amend. to Standard Jury Inst.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2010-04-08T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 41 So. 3d 853

Snippet: the defendant was at the time of the killing. § 782.02, Fla. Stat. The killing of a human being is excusable

In re Amendments To Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—Instruction 7.7.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2010-04-08T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 41 So. 3d 853, 35 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 209, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 476, 2010 WL 1372703

Snippet: the defendant was at the time of the killing. § 782.02, Fla. Stat. The killing of a human being is excusable

In Re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report No. 2009-01

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2010-01-07T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 27 So. 3d 640, 35 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 1, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 2, 2010 WL 26546

Snippet: death or great bodily harm. Give if applicable. § 782.02, Fla. Stat. The use of deadly force is justifiable