709 So. 2d 636 - State v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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1. “force, violence, assault or putting in fear”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 769 So. 2d 501 - Woods v. State · 790 So. 2d 492 - State v. Hawkins

2. “[A bank is] a place generally known to have taken extraordinary security precautions—including armed guards— against precisely this sort of occurrence. Moreover, there was potentially much at stake, in light of the fact that banks have large amounts of cash on the premises. Certainly, given the realities of the day, a reasonable person could fear that someone brazen enough to plan and execute a daylight theft from a bank, at the risk of severe or even fatal injury, would have armed himself in advance. Thus, in this case, the fact that the perpetrator did not openly display a weapon was not as important as the teller's inability to discern that he did not possess one.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 842 So. 2d 963 - Magnotti v. State

3. “[T]he test does not require conduct that is, itself, threatening or forceful. Rather, a jury may conclude that, in context, the conduct would induce fear in the mind of a reasonable person notwithstanding that the conduct is not expressly threatening.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Lee