Florida's legal machinations have taken an abrupt turn as prosecutors drop all charges against former State Rep. Carolina Amesty. Amesty, once facing felony charges for alleged forgery while notarizing a document, can now put this chapter behind her. The case, which emerged from the actions she purportedly took in 2021 during her time at Central Christian Academy, caught the eye of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE).

In a filing made under the stillness of a Sunday dawn, State Attorney Andrew Bain's office submitted documents at precisely 12:30 a.m. with the court clerk indicating an end to their pursuit of Amesty's alleged misdemeanors. The formal reasons for the withdrawal remain unvoiced by the State Attorney's office. The charges, tied to a situation where Amesty was accused of notarizing a document with a forged signature, have evaporated less than two months before what could have been a spectacle of a trial, as detailed by a WFTV report.

This legal pivot arrives after Amesty's narrow defeat in her bid for reelection. A bid that pitted her against Leonard Spencer, a Democratic challenger and former Disney executive, who managed to eke out a victory. Amesty, who had served District 45, dealt with the repercussions of a grand jury indictment that included multiple charges, among them false acknowledgment by a notary public and notarizing her signature, as detailed by a ClickOrlando article.

Amesty, reached by phone, expressed her current state of mind following the announcement of charges being dropped, simply stating, as per ClickOrlando, that she was "very happy right now." The dropped charges stem from a case where the document in question, a signature belonging to former Central Christian Academy principal Dr. Robert Shaffer, was asserted to be forged. Shaffer had averred that he did not sign it or have the document notarized. A complicating factor was the absence of the original document, with only a photocopy available for analysis by the FDLE.