559 So. 2d 1246 - Hoffert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · 506 So. 2d 1039 - In re Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 6C(1) · 504 So. 2d 763 - Manatee County v. Marks · 493 So. 2d 451 - Butler v. State · 427 So. 2d 785 - Butch v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Excusable homicide. An issue in this case is whether the killing of Peter Sullivan was excusable. The killing of a human being is excusable and therefore lawful if committed by accident and misfortune. In order to find the killing was committed by accident and misfortune, you must find that the Defendant was in the heat of passion brought on by a sudden provocation sufficient to produce in the mind of an ordinary person the highest degree of anger, rage, or resentment, that it is so intense as to overcome the use of ordinary judgment, thereby rendering a normal person incapable of reflection. Or in order to find the killing was committed by accident or misfortune, you must find the Defendant was engaged in sudden combat. However, a killing that occurs during sudden combat cannot be excusable if a dangerous weapon was used or the killing was done in a cruel and unusual manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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