988 So. 2d 1185 - Fields v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 403 So. 2d 956 - Ray v. State · 471 So. 2d 32 - Tillman v. State · 981 So. 2d 449 - Martinez v. State · 619 So. 2d 285 - Sochor v. State · 521 So. 2d 106 - Smith v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]hen the defendant raises self-defense as an issue at trial it is within the province of the trial court to determine whether or not the evidence, viewed most favorably to the defendant, is adequate to support an instruction on self-defense. Once the judge concludes that the self-defense issue is proper, he need only instruct the jury as to the elements of self-defense. He will have no occasion to speak of burden of proof other than to explain the state’s burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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