980 So. 2d 951 - Davis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brown v. State · 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State · 666 So. 2d 767 - Cole v. State · 954 So. 2d 968 - Ross v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[I]t is necessary that the accused associate himself in some way with the crime and participate in it with the intent to bring about the crime. Of course, mere presence at the scene of a crime and knowledge that a crime is being committed are not sufficient to establish that a defendant either directed or aided and abetted the crime unless you find beyond [a] reasonable doubt that the defendant was a participant and not a knowing spectator. In other words, you may not find any défendant guilty unless you find beyond a reasonable doubt that every element of the offense ... was committed by some person or persons, and that the defendant voluntarily participated in its commission[] with the intent to violate the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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