Florida Statutes
Fla. Stat. § 950.09 (2025)
Malpractice by jailers.
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950.09 Malpractice by jailers.—If any jailer shall, by too great duress of imprisonment or otherwise, make or induce a prisoner to disclose and give evidence against some other person, or be guilty of willful inhumanity and oppression to any prisoner under his or her care and custody, the jailer shall be punished by removal from office and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.—s. 20, Feb. 10, 1832; RS 2574; GS 3490; RGS 5366; CGL 7500; s. 1178, ch. 71-136; s. 1694, ch. 97-102.
Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 950.09
M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd§950.09OBSTRUCT POLICEMALPRACTICE BY JAILERS
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1987–1987 · leading case: Powell v. State, 508 So. 2d 1307 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987).
Powell v. State, 508 So. 2d 1307 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987). “Roulhac, appeal their convictions of malpractice by a jailer in violation of section 950.09, Florida Statutes (1985). They contend that this statute is impermissibly vague and overbroad and therefore violative of the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United…”
Sims v. State, 510 So. 2d 1045 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987). “The issue presented in this appeal is whether section 950.09, Florida Statutes *1046 (1985), proscribing malpractice by a jailer, is impermissibly vague and therefore violative of the Florida and federal constitutions.”
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