643 So. 2d 1027 - Dillbeck v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2020
20 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 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Gooding v. United States · Davis v. Florida · Trotter v. State · 574 So. 2d 1059 - Nibert v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Under these circumstances, we cannot say that the trial court abused its discretion in striving to level the playing field by ordering Dillbeck to submit to a pre-penalty phase interview with the State’s expert, [citation omitted]. No truly objective tribunal can compel one side in a legal bout to abide by the Marquis of Queensberry’s rules, while the other fights ungloved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Dillbeck was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a policeman with the officer's gun in 1979. While serving his sentence, he walked away from a public function he and other inmates were catering in Quincy, Florida. He walked to Tallahassee, bought a paring knife, and attempted to hijack a car and driver from a shopping mall parking lot on June 24, 1990. Faye Vann, who was seated in the car, resisted and Dillbeck stabbed her several times, killing her. Dillbeck attempted to flee in the car, crashed, and was arrested shortly thereafter and charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery, and armed burglary. He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to consecutive life terms on the robbery and burglary charges, and, consistent with the jury's eight-to-four recommendation, death on the murder charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]llowing the state's expert to examine a defendant will keep the state from being unduly prejudiced because a defendant will not be able to rely on expert testimony that the state has no effective means of rebutting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elledge v. State
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