{"id":407,"date":"2018-10-08T12:31:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tampacriminallawyer.net\/?p=407"},"modified":"2026-01-09T03:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:58:05","slug":"florida-defendants-ask-for-trial-after-new-evidence-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneytampa.net\/blog\/florida-defendants-ask-for-trial-after-new-evidence-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Defendants Ask for Trial After New Evidence Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time, when a defendant pleads guilty, they are unable to later take back their plea and decide to go to trial. However, there are some circumstances when Florida law will allow a defendant to withdraw a guilty plea that they have already given and allow the defendant to have a trial. One of those circumstances is when new evidence is discovered. However, in order to get a new trial on the basis of new evidence, the case must meet specific requirements. Your skilled Tampa criminal defense attorney can tell you whether your case meets these circumstances.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Trial Due to Newly Discovered Evidence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Typically, defendants will plead guilty only when they believe that they do not have much of a chance of being found not guilty when the case goes to trial. In other words, defendants make these decisions based in large part on the evidence that the state has against them. So when new exculpatory evidence arises, some defendants may want to take back their guilty plea and go to trial. Florida has developed case law that explains in what circumstances the court will allow defendants to do this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneytampa.net\/blog\/florida-defendants-ask-for-trial-after-new-evidence-discovered\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Florida Defendants Ask for Trial After New Evidence Discovered\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the time, when a defendant pleads guilty, they are unable to later take back their plea and decide to go to trial. However, there are some circumstances when Florida law will allow a defendant to withdraw a guilty plea that they have already given and allow the defendant to have a trial. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-violent-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Trial After New Evidence in Florida<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Asking for a new trial after new evidence? 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