End to waiting periods among sweeping changes proposed for Florida’s clemency process
Dara Kam, Senior reporter, News Service of Florida
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Supporters of restoring Florida felons voting rights march to an early voting precinct, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition led marches to the polls in dozens of Florida counties. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis is proposing sweeping changes to the state’s clemency process by doing away with a minimum five-year wait before felons can seek to have their civil rights, including the right to vote, restored.
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The Florida First District recently rendered
Mobley v. Fussell, 1D19-4286, regarding the intriguing topic of whether a court clerk might charge someone for copies of public records. Please do not tune out just yet, as the analysis delves far deeper than the seeming banality of copy costs, and is actually a somewhat intriguing and educational expose of the process of statutory analysis.
As an aside, this matter came to the Court as a mandamus petition. Mandamus is one of the extraordinary writs that are exceptions to the general rule that appellate courts address allegations of error most often following the rendition of a final adjudication by a trial court. These have been discussed in this blog before, see