Eutzy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2013
22 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Woodson v. North Carolina · Beck v. Alabama
Most-quoted passages
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“1. The Florida death penalty statute, as applied in this case, is an unconstitutional deprivation of Mr. Eutzy’s rights under the eighth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. 2. The execution of Mr. Eutzy’s death sentence would deprive him of life without due process of law because the trial court relied at sentencing on an aggravating factor that was not supported by the evidence. 3. Mr. Eutzy was denied his constitutionally guaranteed right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial. 4. There has been a fundamental change in Florida law governing the “cold, calculated, and premeditated” aggravating factor, and it is arbitrary and ' capricious not to apply that new standard to Mr. Eutzy’s case. 5. The involvement of the victim’s family in pretrial plea negotiations denied Mr. Eutzy his constitutionally guaranteed right to be free from the arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death sentence. 6. Mr. Eutzy’s death sentence must be vacated as an unconstitutional deprivation of his sixth amendment right to a jury trial on the elements of capital murder. 7. On its face and as applied, Florida’s death penalty statute is unconstitutional because it imposes an unlawful presumption that death is the appropriate penalty- 8. Mr. Eutzy’s 1958 Nebraska conviction was secured in violation of his constitutional rights and cannot serve as a basis for his death sentence. 9. Mr. Eutzy was denied his constitutionally guaranteed right to a competent psychiatric ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is nothing in Booth which suggests that that decision should be retroactively applied to cases in which the claim was not preserved by a timely objection”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`evolutionary refinement' in the law `arising from our case-by-case application of Florida's death penalty statute.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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