722 So. 2d 576 - Ott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2023
10 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 665 So. 2d 852 - Eakes v. State · 549 So. 2d 1316 - Gray v. State · Fuqua v. State · 656 So. 2d 95 - Smith v. State · McCarty v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The factors the Court must look at when confronted with a severance issue is the time period between the offenses, whether the evidence proving each offense would be admissible to prove the other counts, and whether the offenses are interwoven. Here the State seeks to try Count 1 of an indictment that the allegation is this occurred on or about the 18th day of February, 2003; Count 3 that the allegation is that this occurred on or about the 23rd day of September, 2002; and Count 4 that it occurred on or about the 25th day of November, 2002. You're talking from the 23rd day of September of 2002 until the 18th of February, 2003, essentially about five months. All of these are alleged to have occurred within about a five-month time period, the three that the State is seeking to try. That is not an overly long time period. It's not as if this has occurred over the course of years. Five months is a relatively short period of time. The second factor the Court may consider or must consider is whether evidence proving each offense would be admissible to prove the other counts. While the Court does not know this case, but what I've heard from both and what I can tell from the indictment is the same doctor is apparently going to be a witness in all three counts. One pharmacist is a witness in at least two of the three counts and then there is yet another pharmacist who is in Count 1, but the allegation was in Count 2 that he was also in that. The State has indicated they are not going ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is clear from a reading of the definitions and terms of the Act that the Act was intended to regulate recordings by the State of two or more parties without the knowledge of any of the parties. The Act was not intended to prevent police officials from outfitting police agents or confidential informants with "body wires" for use during police investigative activities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an officer may make a warrantless arrest based on his own personal observations or based on communications with other officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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