550 So. 2d 760 - State v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably 756 So. 2d 1218 - State v. Coleman (2000), State v. Cox (1992)
33 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 Batson v. Kentucky · State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith · 419 So. 2d 475 - State v. Lanclos
Most-quoted passages
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“Article 883 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that if Defendant is convicted of two or more offenses based on the same act or transaction, or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan, the terms of imprisonment shall be served concurrently unless the court expressly directs that some or all be served consecutively. And I'm ordering that they be consecutive rather that concurrent and I'll now state my reasons. Article 905.4 lists several aggravating circumstances. This court is convinced that at least four of those aggravating circumstances are applicable here and that they are sufficient grounds to make the sentences consecutive and specifically the evidence was sufficient to show that you were engaged in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of either aggravated burglary, armed robbery, first degree robbery or simple robbery at the time these murders were committed. Also, the evidence is sufficient to show that you knowingly created a risk of death or great bodily harm to more than one person. Also, the evidence is sufficient to show that these offenses were committed in an especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner, and that the victims in this case were both over the age of sixty-five. All of those, I find, are sufficient reasons to make these two life sentences consecutive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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