IN RE RULE 3.160(a), FLA. R. OF CR. PROC.

No. 72670.

528 So.2d 1179 (1988)

In re RULE 3.160(a), FLORIDA RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence T. Johnson, Jr., Chief Judge, Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, Rockledge, Gerald T. Wetherington, Chief Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, and William C. Gridley, Chief Judge, Ninth Judicial Circuit, Orlando, for petitioners.


PER CURIAM.

We have been presented an emergency request by the chief judge of the 18th Circuit, joined in by the chief judges of the 9th and 11th Circuits, to amend rule 3.160(a), Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, to permit all felony as well as misdemeanor arraignments to be done either personally in open court or by audiovisual device at the discretion of the court. Because some circuits are doing this by administrative order and because the procedure affects...

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