Seth — April 1, 2010 @ 1:14 PM — Comments (0)
Yesterday I wrote, prematurely in hindsight, that because an amendment was offered to the state budget to appropriate $200,000 to the Florida Supreme Court for the creation of the Innocence Commission, that the ball was in the FSC’s court to actually create the Commission.
This of course is only partly true. Late yesterday, the Senate approved the amendment. Now this budget item must make its way into the House Budget, either through amendment or in conference, and then the Governor has to sign the budget into law.
Only at that point, will the burden shift to the Florida Supreme Court to get this Commission moving.
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