Florida Statute 782.08 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLVI
CRIMES

Chapter 782
HOMICIDE

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F.S. 782.08

782.08 Assisting self-murder.—Every person deliberately assisting another in the commission of self-murder shall be guilty of manslaughter, a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

History.—s. 9, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2385; GS 3210; RGS 5040; CGL 7142; s. 716, ch. 71-136.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 782.08

Level: Degree
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Cases Citing Statute 782.08

Total Results: 14

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report 2018-13.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2019-06-06T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 272 So. 3d 1210

Snippet: offenses of assisting self-murder. See § 782.08, Fla. Stat. (2018). The amended criminal jury…. 7.7(c) ASSISTED SELF-MURDER § 782.08, Fla. Stat. To prove the crime of Assisted

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report 2017-06.

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 2018-02-08T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 236 So. 3d 282

Snippet: Assisting a suicide is Manslaughter, according to § 782.08, Fla. Stat. A special instruction will be needed

State, Dept. of Ins. v. Keys Title

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1999-09-09T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 741 So. 2d 599

Snippet: its face. The trial court held that section 627.782(8), Florida Statutes violates the right to equal protection…rational basis to limit the application of section 627.782(8) to non-lawyer title insurance agents. Therefore…under Chapter 627, Florida Statutes. Section 627.782(8) authorizes the Department to promulgate a rule … use in setting rates. On its face, section 627.782(8) makes no distinction between lawyers and non-lawyers…reporting requirements authorized by section 627.782(8) and required by rule 4-186.013. Keys Title and

Krischer v. McIver

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1997-07-17T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 697 So. 2d 97

Snippet: filed suit for a declaratory judgment that section 782.08, Florida Statutes (1995), which prohibits assisted…himself." The court concluded that section 782.08 could not be constitutionally enforced against …who assist others in committing suicide. Section 782.08, Florida Statutes (1995), which was first enacted…court and uphold the constitutionality of section 782.08. It is so ordered. SHAW and WELLS, JJ., concur.…#x27;s right of privacy does not render section 782.08 unconstitutional. Majority op. at 104. Florida&

State v. Adams

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1996-06-28T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 683 So. 2d 517

Snippet: commission of selfmurder," a violation of section 782.08, Florida Statutes (1993). The state also challenges…legislature has clearly supplanted it by enacting section 782.08, which expressly prohibits one person from "…being a principal to suicide by enacting section 782.08. The statute directly relates to the same subject… that dismissal was appropriate in that section 782.08 now controls over the common law within the operational

White v. State

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1996-01-17T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 666 So. 2d 895

Snippet: law relating to manslaughter." [2] See § 782.08, Fla. Stat. (1993) (assisting selfmurder); Id.

Ragan v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1992-05-29T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 599 So. 2d 276, 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 5799, 1992 WL 112121

Snippet: self-murder, which is now defined *277in section 782.08, Florida Statutes (1989). We disagree. The only

In Re Guardianship of Browning

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1990-09-13T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 568 So. 2d 4

Snippet: to live. Euthanasia is a crime in this state. § 782.08, Fla. Stat. (1987). See § 765.11(1), Fla. Stat.

State v. Herbert

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1990-09-13T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 568 So. 2d 4, 1990 Fla. LEXIS 1154

Snippet: to live. Euthanasia is a crime in this state. § 782.08, Fla.Stat. (1987). See § 765.11(1), Fla.Stat. (

In Re Guardianship of Browning

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1989-04-10T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 543 So. 2d 258

Snippet: to live. Euthanasia is a crime in this state. § 782.08, Fla. Stat. (1987). See § 765.11(1), Fla. Stat.

Herbert ex rel. Browning v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1989-04-10T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 543 So. 2d 258, 14 Fla. L. Weekly 956, 1989 Fla. App. LEXIS 1960

Snippet: to live. Euthanasia is a crime in this state. § 782.08, Fla.Stat. (1987). See § 765.11(1), Fla.Stat. (

Rodriguez v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1983-12-21T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 443 So. 2d 286

Snippet: constituting manslaughter are assisting self-murder (§ 782.08, Fla. Stat. (1981)), the willful killing of an … are separately defined as manslaughter. See §§ 782.08, 782.09, 782.11, Fla. Stat. (1981); § 316.1931(

Satz v. Perlmutter

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1978-09-13T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 362 So. 2d 160

Snippet: Florida Statutes (1977) or Manslaughter under Section 782.08. The hospital, and its doctors, while not insensitive

Whitehead v. State

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1971-02-18T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 245 So. 2d 94

Snippet: . [4] id. [5] n. 3, supra. [6] See, e.g., §§ 782.08, 782.09, 782.10, 782.12, 782.13, 782.14, 782.15