512 So. 2d 1066 - Lamar v. Keesee’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “In State v. Williams, 442 So.2d 240 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983), this court stated that it was in agreement with State v. Rios, 409 So.2d 241 (Fla. 3d DCA), rev. denied, 419 So.2d 1199 (1982), which held that the crime of endeavoring to traffic in stolen property does not require that the property be stolen, but is complete upon proof that the defendant committed “an overt act manifesting criminal intent directed toward committing the substantive crime of trafficking.” This court stated that there was “no reason to require the proof that the property was stolen in a solicitation to traffic case as opposed to an endeavoring to traffic case.” 442 So.2d at 242 . See also State v. Skinner, 397 So.2d 389 (Fla. 1st DCA 1981) and Padgett v. State, 378 So.2d 118 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980) (both cases holding that a person could be convicted of endeavoring to traffic in stolen goods even though it was established that the goods were not stolen).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 654 So. 2d 1207 - Capaldo v. State

2. “[T]he average layman is probably hard pressed to understand how one can be convicted of dealing in stolen property if the property is not stolen and why, if the person does not commit a completed crime because the property was not stolen, he can be convicted of trying (“attempting” or “endeavoring”) to do something that is legally and physically impossible for him to do.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 654 So. 2d 1207 - Capaldo v. State

3. “[p]roperty that was not stolen was offered for sale as stolen property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Capaldo v. State