Austin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• error in drug trafficking case in allowing trooper’s testimony regarding “general behavior patterns” of drug dealers; defendant has right to be tried on evidence, not general characteristics or conduct of certain types of criminals
• “Testimony about the general behavior of certain kinds of offenders is inadmissible as substantive proof of a defendant’s guilt. Every defendant has the right to be tried on the evidence, not on the general characteristics or conduct of certain types of criminals.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Charles Eugene Smith v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-01-05· cited 1×
• Oyler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-02-06· cited 1×
• Eric Lawrence v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-11-22

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lowder v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-10-08· cited 51×
• Dean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-02· cited 34×
• Dorsey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-07-05· cited 13×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-15· cited 11×
• Griffin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-05-12· cited 5×
• White v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-02· cited 5×
• Hamilton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-14· cited 4×