450 So. 2d 208 - Squires v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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38 state decisions

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1. “defendant is convicted of first degree murder an error or omission in an instruction on the lesser included offense of manslaughter is not fundamental error.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 462 So. 2d 488 - Hyer v. State · Smith v. State

2. “... Squires contends that the trial court violated the Williams Rule by permitting the state to introduce testimony that he had, on several occasions, shot at persons other than the victim. Squires argues that this testimony introduced prejudicial evidence of his alleged criminal activity unrelated to the charges brought at trial and served no purpose but to illustrate his bad character. Williams v. State, 110 So.2d 654 (Fla.), cert. denied, 361 U.S. 847 [ 80 S.Ct. 102 , 4 L.Ed.2d 86 ] (1959); § 90.404(2)(a), Fla.Stat. (1981). We cannot agree. The record shows that appellant put forward testimony of Officer Kinnard who stated that Squires had personally spared his (Kinnard’s) life during an unrelated kidnapping episode. Squires then took the stand and made additional self-serving statements regarding his aversion to killing. Only after the accused entered these statements did the state produce the challenged testimony linking Squires with other shootings. By attempting to demonstrate his non-violent character, Squires had placed this alleged trait in issue. The trial court properly allowed the state to rebut these assertions on non-violent character by showing that Squires had fired deadly weapons at persons other than the victim. Lewis v. State, 377 So.2d 640 (Fla. 1979); § 90.404(l)(a), Fla.Stat. (1981).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 599 So. 2d 158 - Thomas v. State · 794 F. Supp. 1568 - Squires v. Dugger

3. “On the evening of September 2, 1980, Jesse Albritton was abducted from the service station where he worked. Incident to the kidnapping, the service station was robbed of an undetermined amount of money and cigarettes. The next day Albritton’s body was discovered in a wooded area in Hillsborough County. He had been shot at close range — once in the shoulder with a shotgun and four times in the head with a pistol. At the time of Albritton’s murder, Squires was an escapee from the Florida State Prison System, having been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences. Tampa police apprehended Squires on December 24, 1980, after receiving information of the fugitive’s whereabouts from Mrs. Charlotte Cham-bliss. On April 29, 1981, Squires was indicted and charged with the premeditated murder, robbery, and kidnapping of Albritton. At trial the state called Rex Seimer, a correctional officer at Lake Butler, and Robert Fain, a prison inmate. Both men testified that Squires admitted to them to killing Albritton. Detective Gerald Helms also testified that Squires had admitted to robbing the victim and to being present when Albritton was shot. However, Squires told Helms that he personally had not pulled the trigger. The state then offered the testimony of Terry and Charlotte Chambliss, both of whom confirmed that Squires was in Tampa on September 2, 1980, the date of Albrit-ton’s abduction and murder, Mr. Cham-bliss told the court of seeing Squires with several pistols and a shotgun. He”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 794 F. Supp. 1568 - Squires v. Dugger