465 So. 2d 499 - Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Sochor v. Florida (1992), 490 So. 2d 927 - Maxwell v. Wainwright (1986)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Estelle v. Williams · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Alvord v. Florida
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]hether a previous conviction of burglary constitutes a felony involving violence under section 921.141(5)(b), Florida Statutes (1981), depends on the facts of the previous crime. Those facts may be established by documentary evidence, including the charging or conviction documents, or by testimony, or by a combination of both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Inconsistent exculpatory statements can be used to affirmatively show consciousness of guilt and unlawful intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“H. The capital felony was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel. CONCLUSION This aggravating circumstance does apply. The evidence is that an electric cord was put around the victim's neck while he was driving the car. Then he was transported to another section of Fort Lauderdale where he was strangled to death. Witnesses testified that the episode of killing Santi P. Campanella took 15 minutes and that the victim begged and pleaded for his life and that he said he would give them anything they wanted if they would let him live. Witnesses also testified that afterwards the Defendant, Jason Thomas Deaton, said that while the victim begged for his life, he tightened the cord until the victim started spitting up blood. The evidence shows that the Defendant laughed and joked about how long it took the victim to die. The Defendant enjoyed unmercifully the pain and suffering the victim was forced to endure. Therefore, this crime was especially conscienceless, pitiless and unnecessarily torturous. I. The capital felony was a homicide and was committed in a cold, calculated, and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification. CONCLUSION This aggravating circumstance does exist. The evidence is the day before the Defendant discussed how he would kill the victim by strangulation and even chose his weapon, the electric cord. This crime was a vicious scheme in its origin, operation and execution and was a cold calculated plan to kill. There was no moral or leg”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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