Lightfoot v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
January 1986
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. State · 262 So. 2d 655 - DeLaine v. State · 199 So. 2d 100 - State v. Cole · 336 So. 2d 65 - State v. Terry · 313 So. 2d 729 - Gilford v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“. . the language of the majority opinion [in State v. Terry, 336 So.2d 65 (Fla.1976)] unmistakably suggests that the Supreme Court has now returned to a strict adherence to Brown v. State, 206 So.2d 377 (Fla.1968) . . . . The fact that the evidence conclusively demonstrates that if a crime was committed at all it had to be the more serious crime, is irrelevant. Without saying so the Supreme Court has now apparently adopted the theory of “jury pardon” which was advanced as a minority position in Gilford [v. State, Fla., 313 So.2d 729 ], Lightfoot v. State, 331 So.2d 388 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. State“In our opinion such judicial determination at trial level obviously takes a most critical evidentiary matter from the proper province of the jury and vests it improperly as a matter of law with the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lomax v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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