603 So. 2d 488 - Muhammad v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2016
1 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · Maynard v. Cartwright · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Myers v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“Issues which either were or could have been litigated at trial and upon direct appeal are not cognizable through collateral attack.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Power v. State · Blanco v. State“[W]e agree with Muhammad that summary denial was improper as to the State's alleged failure to disclose exculpatory employee statements in violation of Brady v. Maryland , (part of claim 9). Gorham v. State, 521 So.2d 1067 (Fla. 1988). In summarily denying this claim, the trial court stated that "this is an issue that should have been raised on direct appeal." However, some claims arising under Brady are proper in a rule 3.850 motion. Demps v. State, 416 So.2d 808 (Fla.1982). In this case, Muhammad alleges that despite his repeated requests for discovery the State suppressed exculpatory statements of prison employees who witnessed the offense. He further alleges that the State insisted that it had no such statements, when in fact there were such employee statements. Muhammad contends that these statements contained exculpatory information regarding his mental state at the time of the offense, and that he was denied his right to effectively cross-examine witnesses against him based on the statements. Because the trial court believed that this point was inappropriate to a rule 3.850 proceeding, it did not address the merits of whether the alleged Brady violation would require a new trial. Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's ruling on the alleged Brady violation and remand to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing on this issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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