Owens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
July 2017
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Newton v. State · 451 So. 2d 208 - Young v. State · Hodge v. State · 372 So. 2d 276 - Sanford v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he defense requires evidence that the defendant’s location at the relevant time was so removed therefrom as to render it impossible for him to be the guilty party. Thus, a defendant in close enough physical proximity to have committed the crime may deny the criminal activity and may affirmatively, assert that he was elsewhere at the critical time. However, if the asserted alternate location is such that, based on the version of events contended for by the defense, it would remain within the realm of physical possibility for the defendant to have committed the crime, then the defense is nothing more than a denial and would not rise to the level of alibi. It is a fundamental concept of our system of criminal procedüre that an instruction may not be given, even if it correctly recites tile law, if there is no evidentiary basis for the instruction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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