Patrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Mendenhall · Davis v. Alaska · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Henry v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“[This Court has] upheld the HAC ag-gravator in numerous cases involving beatings. Lawrence v. State, 698 So.2d 1219, 1221-22 (Fla.1997) (“We have consistently upheld HAC in beating deaths.”); see also, e.g., Colina v. State, 684 So.2d 1077, 1081 (Fla.1994) (holding that the HAC aggravator applied where one of the defendants hit the victim, who fell to the ground, and when that victim attempted to get to his feet, the other defendant hit him several times in the back of the head with a tire iron); Owen v. State, 596 So.2d 985, 990 (Fla.1992) (upholding the HAC aggravator where the sleeping victim was struck on the head and face with five hammer blows); Lamb v. State, 582 So.2d 1051, 1053 (Fla.1988) (upholding the HAC aggravator where the defendant struck the victim six times in the head with a claw hammer, pulled his feet out from under him, and kicked him in the face); Heiney v. State, 447 So.2d 210, 216 (Fla.1984) (upholding the HAC aggravator where seven severe hammer blows were inflicted on the victims head).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]hotographs ... depicting the skin of the victim's head pulled back to reveal his skull and the entire torso opened to reveal his upper chest ... were provided to demonstrate the internal injuries sustained since they were not otherwise visible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch discretion is limited by the rules of evidence, and a trial court abuses its discretion if its ruling is based on an 'erroneous view of the law or on a clearly erroneous assessment of the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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