Navigation Legislation would limit criminal depositions of young victims, witnesses
Rep. Spencer Roach
Bills being pushed by Florida’s state attorneys to make it harder to take depositions from juvenile victims and witnesses in violent crime cases have been introduced in the Florida Legislature.
HB 465, sponsored by Rep. Spencer Roach, R-North Ft. Myers, and SB 1328, by Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, would prohibit depositions, except with a showing of good cause, from victims or witnesses under 18, those with intellectual disabilities, or victims of sexual assault. The prohibition would cover 13 types of violent crimes.
