The verbatim Florida Standard Jury Instructions are free on the Bar's site, and a chapter of cross-references to assemble by hand the night before the charge conference. This does the assembly. For your charge: the instruction pulled with its lesser-included instructions, a markable elements checklist, and the on-the-record decision points the court must resolve, one instrument, not a stack to reconcile. Any instruction amended in the last twenty-four months carries a recency flag with its amendment history, and — where the corpus has a prior version of that instruction on file — a verbatim, line-by-line diff of what changed, so you catch a court packet printed from a stale version before you argue it. It closes with the preservation rule for your forum, Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.390, and the objection skeleton, so a wording objection survives to appeal. Federal matters get the controlling circuit pattern-instruction source index, which today covers the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuit drug-family pattern instructions. Every line links to its source authority; thin coverage is flagged, not filled in.
“No party may raise on appeal the giving or failure to give an instruction unless the party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which the party objects and the grounds of the objection.”
Match the charge to its instruction text — the Florida Standard Jury Instruction with its lesser-includeds first, the controlling federal circuit pattern instruction where the matter is federal — with coverage gaps flagged before the charge conference.
Isolate element, mens rea, quantity, and sentencing-factor language that may need objection, alternative wording, or special-verdict preservation.
List prior appellate challenges to comparable instruction language with opinion URLs, quote-window context, and charge-scope caveats.
Compare same-charge language across available circuits while labeling nonlocal variants as comparison material, not controlling authority.
Convert instruction objections into a preservation checklist with proposed language, grounds, ruling, and exception noted on the record.
Fail closed when a charge or forum — Florida or federal — is absent from the verified instruction corpus, and route the missing item into counsel-review gaps.
25 Florida charge families today, 348 standard instructions in all, from DUI and driving-while-license-suspended through battery, theft, weapons, drugs, the full sex-offense chapter, homicide, and economic crimes. Each is the verbatim Florida Standard Jury Instruction from the Bar’s site, and any instruction amended recently is flagged with its amendment history, plus a verbatim diff of what changed when a prior version is on file, so you catch a court reading from a stale version before you argue it.
Name your charge in the form below and the brief generates for that instruction and its lesser-includeds only, not the whole chapter to reconcile the night before the charge conference.
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