772 So. 2d 1209 - State v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2022
3 federal appellate · 11 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · 395 So. 2d 1145 - McCrae v. State · Smith v. State · Ellis v. State · 763 So. 2d 285 - Raulerson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[Although an adjudication of guilt is generally required for there to be a “conviction,” that term as used in Florida law is a chameleon-like term that has drawn its meaning from the particular statutory context in which the term is used.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In the absence of a definition of “conviction” in section 90.610(1), it is appropriate to resort to prior case law. See State v. Mitro, 700 So.2d 643 , 645 (Fla.1997). Defining “conviction” to require the adjudication of guilt is consistent with this Court’s jurisprudence. Before the enactment of the Florida Evidence Code in 1976, this Court on several occasions had defined the term “conviction” as encompassing a guilty plea or verdict of guilty along with a judgment by the court. Over one hundred years ago, this Court in Barnes observed that in its “ordinary sense,” the term “ ‘conviction’ means the ascertainment of the guilt of a party, either by a plea of guilty, or by the verdict of a jury.” State ex rel. Owens v. Barnes, 24 Fla. 153 , 157, 4 So. 560 , 561 (1888). However, the Court recognized that, “numerous authorities” held that a “judgment or sentence [was] a necessary component part of ‘convietion.’ ” Id. Thus, for purposes of construing the term “conviction” as used in a statute dealing with “conviction fees,” the Court used a definition of conviction that included the judgment and sentence of the court. Id. at 161, 4 So. at 562 . Similarly, this Court once again addressed the definition of “convicted” in the case of Smith v. State, 75 Fla. 468 , 473, 78 So. 530 , 532 (1918), where the Court construed the term as used in a statute prohibiting the selling of intoxicating liquors to minors. According to this Court, “The meaning of the word ‘convicted’ as used in the s”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) A party may attack the credibility of any witness, including an accused, by evidence that the witness has been convicted of a crime if the crime was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of 1 year under the law under which the witness was convicted, or if the crime involved dishonesty or a false statement regardless of the punishment. ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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