644 So. 2d 54 - Lightbourne v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2018
19 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 · United States v. Bagley · Chambers v. Mississippi · Youngberg v. United States · Griffin v. Texas
Most-quoted passages
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“(2) The following are not excluded under s. 90.802, provided that the declar-ant is unavailable as a witness: 4 [[Image here]] (c) Statement against interest. — A statement which, at the time of its making, was so far contrary to the declar-ant’s pecuniary or proprietary interest or tended to subject the declarant to liability or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, so that a person in the declarant’s position would not have made the statement unless he or she believed it to be true. A statement tending to expose the declarant to criminal liability and offered to exculpate the accused is inadmissible, unless corroborating circumstances show the trustworthiness of the statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although Chavers states in his affidavit and in one of the letters that he lied at trial, it cannot be said that a reasonable person would believe they were subject to a perjury penalty eight years after providing testimony at a trial. As the lower court pointed out, the statute of limitations had run so that Chavers could no longer be prosecuted for perjury. See §§ 775.15(2)(b) and 837.02, Fla. Stat. (1991). In any event, the hearsay evidence relating to Chavers lacks the necessary indicia of reliability. First, Chavers' statements were made several years after the trial. More importantly, at the evidentiary hearing Chavers feigned a memory loss and would not answer questions pertaining to his statements, thereby severely undermining the credibility of his statements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has been known or should have been known for many years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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