CopyCited 107 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida
...ore counties; that its jurisdiction is statutorily limited to multi-county criminal activity; that the indictment charged offenses occurring in Seminole County only and showed no connection of the charged offenses with activities in a second county. Section 905.32, Florida Statutes (1975), explains the legislative intent for the enactment of the Statewide Grand Jury act as follows: "It is the intent of the legislature in enacting this act to strengthen the grand jury system and enhance the abili...
...NOTES [1] By this decision, we do not purport to determine what activity is necessary to make the crime charged inter-county so as to fall within the jurisdiction of the statewide grand jury. We do point out, however, that the legislative intent enunciated in § 905.32, Fla....
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CopyCited 18 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2005 WL 2095664
...(The Statewide Grand Jury was created in 1973 to "strengthen the grand jury system and enhance the ability of the State to detect and eliminate organized criminal activity by improving the evidence gathering process in matters which transpire or have significance in more than one county." Section 905.32, Florida Statutes.) THE GRAND JURY AS AN ACCUSING AND INVESTIGATIVE BODY Our constitution provides that no person shall be brought to trial for a capital crime except upon indictment of a grand jury....
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CopyCited 7 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 1989 WL 99682
...his act to strengthen the grand jury system and enhance the ability of the state to detect and eliminate organized criminal activity by improving the evidence-gathering process in matters which transpire or have significance in more than one county. § 905.32, Fla....
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CopyCited 6 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal
...County, Florida. The named appellees filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, alleging as one ground that the Grand Jury was without jurisdiction to indict them for the offenses alleged. In support of their motion to dismiss, appellees relied upon Section 905.32, Florida Statutes (1973), entitled "Legislative intent." This particular section construes the Statewide Grand Jury Act and provides that: *876 "It is the intent of the legislature in enacting this act to strengthen the grand jury syst...
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CopyCited 4 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal
...it is empowered to investigate it can indict for such offense whether or not it finds sufficient probable cause to believe a particular offense had any multicounty relationship. Any other interpretation would frustrate the intent of the legislation. Section 905.32, Florida Statutes, states that it was the intent of the legislature in enacting this act to strengthen the grand jury system and enhance the state's ability to detect and eliminate organized criminal activity. Section 905.32, Florida Statutes....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 27 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 451, 2002 Fla. LEXIS 880, 2002 WL 926073
...(The Statewide Grand Jury was created in 1973 to “strengthen the grand jury system and enhance the ability of the State to detect and eliminate organized criminal activity by improving the evidence gathering process in matters which transpire or have significance in more than one county.” Section 905.32, Florida Statutes.) THE GRAND JURY AS AN ACCUSING AND INVESTIGATIVE BODY Our constitution provides that no person shall be brought to trial for a Capital crime except upon indictment of a grand jury....
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CopyCited 1 times | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal
...state’s argument that because section
910.15(1) extends SWP prosecution
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jurisdiction, section
910.15(1) also extends SWGJ jurisdiction to a section
838.016(1) violation.
Our Analysis
We begin by observing that section
905.32 states the legislative intent
of Florida’s Statewide Grand Jury Act is “to strengthen the grand jury
system and enhance the ability of the state to detect and eliminate
organized criminal activity . . . in matters which transpire or have
significance in more than one county.” §
905.32, Fla....
...The SWGJ
jurisdiction statute was enacted to facilitate prosecuting crimes occurring
in two or more judicial circuits if those crimes are related transactions or
the result of an organized criminal conspiracy. Given the stated legislative
purpose in section
905.32, that the SWGJ act is to “detect and eliminate
organized criminal activity,” clearly the intent of section
905.34 is to
facilitate the prosecution of the criminal activities of organized enterprises.
Compare §
905.32, Fla....
CopyPublished | Supreme Court of Florida | 2014 WL 4458879
...1973 to "strengthen the grand jury
system and enhance the ability of the State to detect and eliminate organized
criminal activity by improving the evidence gathering process in matters which
transpire or have significance in more than one county." Section 905.32, Florida
Statutes.)
THE GRAND JURY AS AN ACCUSING
AND INVESTIGATING BODY
Our constitution provides that no person shall be brought to trial for a capital
crime except upon indictment of a grand jury....
CopyPublished | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal
...Legislature intended, to “strengthen the grand jury system and enhance the
ability of the state to detect and eliminate organized criminal activity by improving
the evidence-gathering process in matters which transpire or have significance
in more than one county.” § 905.32, Fla....
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or have significance in more than one county.’ §
905.32, Fla. Stat. (2018).” To expand on that point,
