Florida Statute 951.16 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLVII
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CORRECTIONS

Chapter 951
COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL PRISONERS

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951.16 Prisoners entitled to receive credit on fine based on imprisonment.—Every person who may be imprisoned in the county jail for failure to pay a fine and costs, or either, under sentence imposed upon conviction for crime shall be entitled to receive, together with subsistence, a credit on such fine and costs, or either, as the case may be, in proportion to the time such person may be imprisoned.

History.—s. 1, ch. 6176, 1911; RGS 6223; CGL 8557.

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Antoine Leffort Louissaint v. State of Florida (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).

Cited 1 times | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...Areces, Judge. Antoine Leffort Louissaint, in proper person. James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and Camilo Montoya, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee. Before SCALES, C.J., and LINDSEY and GOODEN, JJ. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See § 951.16, Fla....

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