697 So. 2d 966 - Dixon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[The] retroactive application of the rule announced in Hale will have no serious adverse effect upon the administration of justice. Courts will not be required to overturn convictions or delve extensively into stale records to apply the rule. The administration of justice would be more detrimentally affected if criminal defendants who had the misfortune to be sentenced during the six year window between the amendment of section 775.084 and the decision in Hale are required to serve sentences two or more times as long as similarly situated defendants who happened to be sentenced after Hale.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 730 So. 2d 265 - Dixon v. State

2. “WHETHER APPELLANT'S RULE 3.850 MOTION SEEKING RETROACTIVE BENEFIT OF HALE V. STATE, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993), SHOULD BE DEEMED TIMELY FILED WHERE: (1) APPELLANT SOUGHT HALE RELIEF PRIOR TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF [ STATE V.] CALLAWAY [ 658 So.2d 983 (Fla.1995)], AND RELIEF WAS DENIED; AND (2) APPELLANT FILED ANOTHER MOTION FOR POSTCONVICTION RELIEF, BASED ON HALE, WITHIN TWO YEARS AFTER CALLAWAY WAS ANNOUNCED.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 730 So. 2d 265 - Dixon v. State

3. “in the position of having raised the Hale issue both too early and too late. His initial Rule 3.850 motion raised the Hale issue, but did so at a time when Hale had not been held [in Callaway ] to be retroactive.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 730 So. 2d 265 - Dixon v. State