333 So. 2d 524 - Reed v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2006
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 112 So. 2d 380 - In re Florida Appellate Rules · 51 So. 2d 494 - Stewart v. State · Lee A. Tharpe Construction Co. v. Chivers · Chavez v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Appellant was charged and found guilty of the sale of marijuana. Trial evidence disclosed a single transaction between appellant and a police officer. No evidence of any character was adduced as to appellant having been previously engaged in the sale of drugs to any other persons. However, the prosecuting attorney argued to the jury as follows: You have got a tough decision to make in this case. It's not an easy one. The last ten years drug trafficking and drug abuse in this country has skyrocketed. It's a spreading disease. Drug abuse has spread down from colleges to high schools down to grade schools. You read in papers now about children in grade schools, grammar schools using drugs, and where do those drugs come from? From people who are willing to make money off of them. Now, we've got a police force that is trying to make arrests on dope peddlers. We've got Courts that are willing to try dope peddlers. We've got prosecutors that are willing to prosecute dope peddlers to try to clean up this country. But the ultimate and the final responsibility, the whole system comes down to one focal point, one responsibility: Citizens of each community that sit on juries of these cases. You have the ultimate power over controlling drug abuse: Sitting on drug cases and listening to the testimony, deciding whether the State has proved its case. The welfare of the citizens of Florida and the people of Duval County, I'm contending, ask that you return a verdict of guilty in this case aft”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nce again the extensive time and money expended in a criminal proceeding must go `down the drain' because of the over zealous argument of one prosecutor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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