Bates v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• comments by prosecutor in closing argument which refer to defendant’s failure to call a witness generally are reversible error in light of possibility that the comments could lead the jury to believe that the defendant had the burden of proving his innocence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-03· cited 14×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-04-19· cited 4×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-10-30· cited 2×
• Knowles v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-03-24· cited 2×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Crowley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-03-28· cited 12×
• Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Haese
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-02-08· cited 1×