450 So. 2d 545 - Whitehead v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 419 So. 2d 1194 - Thomas v. Ratiner · 437 So. 2d 150 - Strickland v. State · 416 So. 2d 1203 - Streeter v. State · Palm v. State · 434 So. 2d 945 - Overfelt v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Unless otherwise provided by law, whenever a person is charged with a felony, except a felony in which the use of a weapon or firearm is an essential element, and during the commission of such felony the defendant carries, displays, uses, threatens, or attempts to use any weapon or firearm, ... the felony for which the person is charged shall be reclassified as follows: (a) in the case of a felony of the first degree, to a life felony. (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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