532 So. 2d 1048 - Gore v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2012
3 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 Strickland v. Washington · Lockett v. Ohio · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Bush v. Florida · 515 So. 2d 176 - Hill v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Gore and his cousin picked up fourteen-year-old [R.M. 1 ] and seventeen-year-old Lynn Elliott who were hitchhiking to the beach. After the glove compartment in the pickup truck fell open and a gun became visible, Gore took the gun and held it to [R.M.’s] head. He grabbed the two girls’ wrists and held them together. Gore then said that they should take the girls to Gore’s home. He told the girls that if they said or did anything, they would be killed. When they arrived at his home, the girls were handcuffed and taken into a bedroom. The girls then were separated, and Lynn was tied up while [R.M.] was handcuffed. Gore cut [R.M.’s] clothes off of her and sexually assaulted her on three separate occasions. [R.M.] testified that she heard noises in the other room after Gore had left her. She heard Gore tell Lynn to shut up or he would kill her. Gore also told [R.M.] to be quiet or he would slit her throat and that he would do it anyway. Gore then put [R.M.] in the closet, and, after he left, she heard two or three shots. Gore then came back into the room and put [R.M.] in the attic where she stayed until rescued by a police officer. Michael Rock, a fifteen-year-old boy, testified that on July 26, 1983, while riding his bicycle in the area of Gore’s home, he heard screaming and observed a naked girl running down the driveway being chased by Gore who was also naked. He saw Gore catch up to her, drag her back to a palm tree, and shoot her twice in the head. Rock went home and told h”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sentencer ... [must] not be precluded from considering, as a mitigating factor, any aspect of a defendant's character ... that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the omission of this evidence would not have affected the outcome of [the] case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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