417 So. 2d 631 - Ferguson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions

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1. “The facts reveal that the two victims were seated in an automobile and while seated therein a gunshot was fired through the window striking Brian Glen-feld in the arm and chest area. A significant amount of bleeding followed and this victim’s blood was found throughout many areas of the front of the automobile as well as on the clothing of Belinda Worley. Following the shooting, the female victim ran many hundreds of feet from the car in an attempt to [elude] the defendant and was finally overtaken in some rather dense overgrowth and trees. She was subjected to many physical abuses by this defendant, including but not limited to, sexual penetration of her vagina and anus. The discovery of embedded dirt in her fingers, on her torso both front and back and in many areas within her mouth and the findings of hemorrhaging around her vagina and anal cavity would indicate that she put up a significant struggle and suffered substantially during the perpetration of these indignities upon her body. Expert testimony indicates that she was a virgin at the time of the occurrence of this crime. The position of her body and the location of the wounds on her head would indicate that she was in a kneeling position at the time she was shot through the top of the head. She was left in a partially nude condition in the area where the crime was committed to be thereafter fed upon by insects and other predators. Physical evidence would substantiate that following the attack upon Belinda Worley the”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ferguson v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections · 593 So. 2d 508 - Ferguson v. State

2. “sufficient present ability to consult with and aid his attorney in the preparation of a defense with a reasonable degree of understanding.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 442 So. 2d 357 - Kothman v. State · 505 So. 2d 409 - Bush v. Wainwright

3. “[t]he test for a valid third-party consent to a warrantless search is whether the third party has joint control of the premises.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 523 So. 2d 718 - Pinyan v. State · 622 So. 2d 952 - Saavedra v. State