FL S2720

Amends criminal procedure to specify when arrest warrants may be issued, including for contempt, felony charges, probation violations, and failure to appear, and requires officers to provide verified warrant copies upon request

Establishes that acquittal, conviction, or dismissal with prejudice bars subsequent prosecution for the same offense, and creates third-degree felony penalties for judicial or prosecuting officers who knowingly violate double jeopardy protections

Requires sentences to run consecutively for violent offenses and concurrently for nonviolent offenses, and mandates clerks provide defendants copies of judgments within 3 days to protect appeal rights

Increases penalties from second-degree to first-degree misdemeanor for officers exceeding authority under search warrants and for refusing inspection warrants; creates new second-degree misdemeanor for exceeding authority on inspection warrants

Reforms probation violation procedures by requiring chief judges to direct use of notification letters for technical violations and mandating dismissal unless the probationer has received at least two prior warnings for the violation