Adams v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a sentence of 58.5 years in prison was a de facto LWOP sentence where the defendant would not be eligible for release until he was nearly seventy-six
• holding that sentence which required juvenile defendant to serve at least 58.5 years in prison was a de facto life sentence for non-homicide offense
• reversing a sentence that required a juvenile nonhomicide offender to serve at least fifty-eight and one-half years because the sentence exceeded the offender’s life expectancy
• reversing a sentence that required a juvenile nonhomicide offender to serve at least fifty-eight and one-half years because the sentence exceeded the offender’s life expectancy
• reversing a sentence that required a juvenile nonhomicide offender to serve at least fifty-eight and one-half years because the sentence exceeded the offender’s life expectancy
• sixty-year sentence and first opportunity for release around age seventy-six

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Rainer
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2013-04-11· cited 340×
• State of Iowa v. Denem Anthony Null
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-08-16· cited 303×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-03-19· cited 141×
• Clyde E. Johnson v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-04-20· cited 32×
• Walle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-28· cited 24×
• Peterson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-10· cited 13×
• Miguel Angel Alfonso-Roche v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-01· cited 11×
• Gage v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-18· cited 9×
• Javarris Lane v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-10-12· cited 9×
• Franklin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-19· cited 9×
• Taylor Engineering, Inc. and Robert J. Wagner, P.E. v. Dickerson Florida, Inc., a Florida corporation
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-31· cited 8×
• Morris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-21· cited 6×
• Davis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-09-14· cited 5×
• Cabrera v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-11-09· cited 4×
• People v. Lucero
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2013-04-11· cited 4×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-07-31· cited 2×
• Floyd W. Peterson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-06
• Commonwealth v. Felder, M., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-02-23
• BAM Trading Services, Inc., D/B/A Binance.US v. State of Florida, Office of Financial Regulation
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-10-17
• David T. Beans v. Amy S. Beans
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-04-30

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Graham v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-17· cited 3,477×
• In Re Rule 9.331, Etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-06-24· cited 66×
• Alvarez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-04-04· cited 66×
• Henry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-01-20· cited 62×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-12-30· cited 51×
• Floyd v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-12· cited 35×
• Gridine v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-12-30· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-21· cited 13×
• McCullum v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-04-21· cited 4×