653 So. 2d 443 - State v. Ingleton’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The trial court's order in the instant case is based on the conclusion that the state charged the defendant with murder by strangulation and did not charge the defendant with killing the victim by unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. However, it should be noted that the trial court granted the state's motion to strike the language "by Strangling Wendy Prior" from the indictment. Therefore, the indictment charges the defendant with killing the victim simply by premeditated design. The question then becomes whether the unlawful killing of a human being which resulted from the unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, when such drug is the proximate cause of death, which is contained in subsection 3., differs in any substantial way with an unlawful killing resulting from the perpetration of one of the specified felonies contained in subsection 2.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ingleton v. State

2. “(l)(a) The unlawful killing of a human being: 3. Which resulted. from the unlawful distribution of any substance controlled under s. 893.03(1), cocaine as described in s. 893.03(2)(a)4., opium or any synthetic or natural salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium, or methadone by a person 18 years.pf age or older, when such drug is proven to be the proximate cause of the death of the user, 4 . is murder in the first degree and constitutes a capital felony, punishable as provided in s. 775.082.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 107 F. Supp. 3d 1271 - Smart v. City of Miami

3. “EDWARD ROBERT INGLETON on the 11th day of September, 1993, in the County of Brevard, and State of Florida, did then and there unlawfully kill a human being, WENDY PRIOR, by STRANGLING WENDY PRIOR, and said killing was perpetrated by said EDWARD ROBERT INGLETON from a premeditated design or intent to effect the death of said WENDY PRIOR, contrary to Section 782.04(1)(a)1, Florida Statutes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ingleton v. State