408 So. 2d 1021 - Elledge v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably Hunt v. State (1990), William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger (1987)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · Lubin v. Allison · United States v. Mazurie · James Edward Kennedy v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden · 337 So. 2d 783 - Provence v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he critical issue in a restraint case is the degree of prejudice caused by the restraint.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Appellant asserts that his appearance before the sentencing jury in leg irons led to prejudice in the jury’s mind. Cases which concern such prejudice deal with the adverse effects that such restraints have upon the accused’s presumption of innocence. See Kennedy v. Card-well, 487 F.2d 101, 104 (6th Cir.1973), cert. denied, 416 U.S. 959 , 94 S.Ct. 1976 , 40 L.Ed.2d 310 (1974). But appellant did not stand before the sentencing jury as an innocent man; rather he stood as a confessed murderer of three persons. The critical issue in a restraint case is the degree of prejudice caused by the restraints. Here, we can find very little prejudice since the appellant was an avowed dangerous individual. See United States ex rel. Stahl v. Henderson, 472 F.2d 556, 557 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 411 U.S. 971 , [ 93 S.Ct. 2166 ] 36 L.Ed.2d 694 (1973). Second such restraints are within the sound discretion of the court, and the record indicates the judge had information that the appellant had threatened to attack his bailiff. Elledge through his confessed acts had proven himself a man of his word when violence was threatened, so we would be hard pressed to find the trial court abused its discretion in taking such precautions.” 408 So.2d at 1022-23 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ases which concern such prejudice deal with the adverse effects that such restraints have upon the accused's presumption of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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