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Five Florida Cases Remanded for Award of Jail or Prison Credits
Loaded on March 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2005, page 9
Florida's Second and Fifth District Courts of Appeals have remanded five separate cases for the award of jail or prison credit. Each case was filed under Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a) alleging illegal sentences were imposed for failure to award jail or prison credits they were entitled to.In ...
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