680 So. 2d 1132 - Gilbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 561 So. 2d 554 - Pope v. State · 589 So. 2d 287 - State v. Cabrera · 552 So. 2d 1107 - State v. Betancourt · 675 So. 2d 911 - State v. Griffith · 577 So. 2d 653 - Henderson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“It is admittedly impossible to determine from either the information or the evidence whether the crimes were committed before or after January 1, 1994. Because the conclusion that they occurred after that date, which results in the application of the lower, 1994, guidelines, is more favorable to the defendant, the familiar "rule of lenity" requires that he be given the benefit of that doubt. § 775.021(1), Fla. Stat. (1995); see State v. Griffith, 675 So.2d 911 (Fla.1996)(uncertainty as to the date of offenses resolved in favor of being committed before defendant reached sixteen and thus subject to lesser penalties).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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