SCOTUS
This case's chief issue concerned whether a judge or a jury should determine if a defendant’s prior felonies occurred on “separate occasions” under the ACCA
What is Erlinger v. United States?
This case involves a defendant's motion to suppress incriminating statements during an interrogation, which was properly denied by the trial court under the Fifth Amendment's Miranda rights
What is Herard v. State?
This brief detention, otherwise known as a stop-and-frisk, was conducted with suspicions deemed not reasonable in Carter v. State
What is a Terry Stop?
This case from the 3d DCA involved a declination to decide whether the smell of marijuana was enough for probable cause under Florida's new medical marijuana laws
What is Wright-Johnson v. State?
This method of drug detection is no longer enough alone to provide probable cause for a warrantless search as ruled in Ford v. State from the 5th DCA, as it cannot distinguish illegal marijuana use from legal medical use
What is an alert from a K9?
This Act's amended 2018 version downgrading the penalty for first-time offenders with firearms was central in the recently released decision for Hewitt v. United States
What is the First Step Act?
These two cases taken up by the Florida Supreme Court involve claims regarding the ruling of Erlinger by the Supreme Court the previous year (name one)
What is Wainwright v. State?
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What is Tanzi v. State?
This Act was the center of a complex legal dilemma encountered in Wester v. State in trying to determine whether a single individual planting narcotics and falsely arresting individuals was enough to qualify as an "enterprise"
What is the RICO Act?
This case from the 4th DCA involved the unlawful search of the defendant's social media without a warrant, as it was deemed not a good-faith exception of the exclusionary rule
What is Young v. State?
This 6th DCA case involved an incorrect instruction about justifiable use of deadly force given to the jury, although the defendant was found to have suffered no prejudice from the instruction
What is Moradi v. State?
This case's denial of cert involves dissent from Justice Gorsuch regarding his opinion that Florida's allowance of 6 jurors to make up a jury is unconstitutional according to the Seventh Amendment
What is Cunningham v. Florida?
This case affirmed that information about biological parents does not qualify as mitigation evidence as it is not "relevant to the defendant’s character, prior record, or the circumstances of the offense to be admissible.”
What is Randolph v. State?
This case involved a defendant claiming he was coerced into going pro se after 14 different Faretta inquiries
What is Ash v. State?
This motion not performed by defense counsel in trial court was the driving factor behind the defendant's subsequent motion claiming he had ineffective counsel in Nixon v. State, which was ruled to have been properly denied
What is strike for cause?
This 6th DCA case involved the improper dismissal of charges brought against the defendant for bringing a covered machete into Wal-Mart as a convicted felon
What is State v. Ivory (2024)?
This exception was found to not require virtually identical and identifiable comparator evidence for retaliatory arrest cases in Gonzalez v. Trevino
What is the Nieves Exception?
This three-pronged test was not met by the defendant in Foster v. State, and thus his postconviction motion for a disability claim was properly denied
What is the Atkins test?
This case was an opportunity for the 2d DCA to clarify its previous ruling in Owens v. State (2021) while also allowing Chief Justice Sleet to let his dissent stand as an endorsement of the decision of Baxter v. State (2024) from the 5th DCA
What is Simmons v. State?
This occurrence was viewed in precedent to be a fundamental error in judicial proceedings, but was not seen as a sufficient reason to garner a rehearing in Salgado-Mantilla v. State as both counsel had priorly agreed to it
What is the judge leaving the courtroom during the presentation of evidence?
This phrase previously required to be put on the driver's license of certain offenders was found to be unconstitutional and a violation of the 1st Amendment in Crist v. State, although the 5th DCA still urges the Florida Supreme Court to hear it as well.
What is "SEXUAL PREDATOR"?
This federal law's "otherwise" clause was ruled in Fischer v. United States to limit criminal liability where the Government can prove the defendant impaired the availability or integrity of official documents
What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?
Who is Justice Jorge Labarga?
This reason for incapacitation was seen by the trial court as a waiving of the defendant's right to be at his trial in Nipper v. State, only for the case to be remanded for a new trial by the 1st DCA
What is the ingestion of meth?
This response made by the defendant in Smith v. State was affirmed to be a statement, not a question, regarding the law enforcement officer's reading of his constitutional rights, thus requiring that no answer needed to be given by said officer
What is "I can contact my lawyer."?
This test was proven to be satisfied in State v. Banda, where the trial court erred in failing to charge the defendant of both solicitation and transmission of harmful material to a minor out of fear of double jeopardy
What is the "different elements test"?