590 So. 2d 458 - Castillo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2016
4 federal appellate · 12 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 383 So. 2d 1186 - Beugnet v. Beugnet · Kemble v. United States · Smith v. State · Florida Bar v. Pincus · Ramirez v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Section 790.23 makes it “unlawful for any person who has been convicted of a felony ... to ... have in his ... possession ... any firearm_” Id. at § 790.-23(1) (emphasis added). While the defendant in this case had a prior criminal record, the prior proceedings had resulted in the withholding of adjudication. For purposes of this statute, we construe “conviction” to mean an adjudication of guilt. See Ferguson v. State, 379 So.2d 163, 164 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980); accord Burkett v. State, 518 So.2d 1363, 1366 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988); see also Weathers v. State, 56 So.2d 536, 538 (Fla.), cert. denied, 344 U.S. 896 , 73 S.Ct. 276 , 97 L.Ed. 692 (1952); Smith v. State, 75 Fla. 468 , 78 So. 530 (1918); 14 Fla.Jur. 2d, Criminal Law § 3 (1979). Where adjudication has been withheld, the offender is not a convicted felon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he defendant pled guilty to the charge and the trial court withheld adjudication of guilt; this means that the defendant was never convicted of this felony, and that, accordingly, he could not, as we have squarely held, be convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon based on such a withhold of adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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