926 So. 2d 490 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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1. “[Rjeversal of defendant’s first conviction and sentence did not preclude the state from holding a second trial, only from seeking a conviction for aggravated burglary. ... The court of appeal therefore had no basis for vacating that verdict as unresponsive to the charge that it believed should have been brought, i.e., attempted aggravated burglary, because the verdict was not inherently tainted by virtue of its return in the trial of a jeopardy-barred offense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thomas v. Vannoy · State v. Thomas

2. “Comment on the defendant's failure to take the stand at trial is a trial error, not a structural defect in the proceedings, that has been subject to harmless-error analysis at the federal level since Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 , 87 S.Ct. 824 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 (1967).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 985 So. 2d 234 - State v. Jones