Alfaro v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the excluded testimony was not hearsay as it was offered to show that the defendant had a good faith belief that the van was not stolen and belonged to the passenger
• holding that excluded testimony was not hearsay as it was offered to show that the defendant had a good faith belief that the van was not stolen and belonged to the passenger
• holding that excluded testimony was not hearsay as it was offered to show that the defendant had a good faith belief that the van was not stolen and belonged to the passenger
• holding that court's failure to instruct jury on good faith defense to charge of grand theft of a motor vehicle was not fundamental error, as instruction did not go to an essential element of theft
• holding improper the exclusion of alleged out-of-court statement of permission for an alleged car thief to drive the purportedly stolen vehicle
• finding no fundamental error in failing to give unrequested “claim of right” instruction in relation to grand theft auto conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Aversano v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-10-17· cited 34×
• Jenkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-12-16· cited 12×
• Sloss v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-19· cited 5×
• Owens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-02-13· cited 4×
• Capiro v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-12· cited 4×
• Massey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-03-20· cited 3×
• North v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-06-09· cited 2×
• Funchess v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-06· cited 2×
• Gregory v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-02-08· cited 1×
• T.D.W. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-09-01· cited 1×
• CAMERLENGO v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-09-10
• TDW v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-09-01
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-11-20
• Corey Stephen Smith v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-06-27

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sochor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-05-06· cited 103×
• Koon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-08-20· cited 46×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-03-31· cited 34×
• Tobey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-11-18· cited 16×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-06-03· cited 15×
• King v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 11×
• Muteei v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-18· cited 6×
• Howard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-06-12· cited 4×
• Chalmers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-06-13· cited 1×