Mendez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 461 So. 2d 67 - Davis v. State · 637 So. 2d 911 - Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Jenkins · 492 So. 2d 1322 - Lavado v. State · 469 So. 2d 917 - Williams v. State · 424 So. 2d 148 - Williams v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“Although trial judges are vested with broad discretion in regulating the extent and scope of the examination of prospective jurors, such discretion must be tempered with the right of both the state and defense to examine jurors orally on their voir dire which is guaranteed by Fla. R.Crim. P. 3.300(b). In construing this rule, we recently held that the trial court cannot question prospective jurors on critical areas such as the presumption of innocence, burden of proof, and the right to silence, and then preclude counsel from further individual examination under the guise that it would be repetitive .... The issue of misidentifieation was the core or critical issue in this case, and we conclude that the defendant was effectively denied his right to a fair and impartial jury by virtue of the trial court’s restriction on the individual questioning of the venire panel about his sole defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. State
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