Wednesday, February 15th, 2007

In Re: Amendments to Rules of Criminal Procedure

SC06-2065

The Court considers a proposed rule change that would give prosecutors the right to give the first closing argument to the jury and also, after the defense has presented its closing argument to the jury, a final closing argument. Under the previous rule, defendants who did not call any witnesses other than themselves had the right to make the opening and closing final argument.

Statewide impact