Bellamy v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a defendant acts with a “depraved mind” if he or she kills another “out of ill will, hatred, spite, or evil intent”
• finding that the State faded to demonstrate a depraved mind where the defendant stabbed two people during an “affray” at a nightclub after he had just been pushed to the ground and stepped on
• reversing convictions for second degree murder and attempted second degree murder where defendant stabbed victims after he was pushed to the ground and someone stepped on his neck at a nightclub
• finding no evidence of malice to support a second-degree murder conviction when the parties did not know each other and the altercation took only one or two minutes
• defendant stabbed one victim when he was outnumbered and pushed against a wall and stabbed another after being pushed to the ground by a crowd of brawlers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Montgomery
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-04-08· cited 288×
• Antoine v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-07· cited 30×
• Wiley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-05-18· cited 21×
• Leasure v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-10-24· cited 14×
• Kyree Luis Perez v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-04-12· cited 13×
• Poole v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-26· cited 11×
• Sandhaus v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-01-29· cited 5×
• Starks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-03-22· cited 4×
• Antonio Devon Williams v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-06-08· cited 1×
• Roger Allen Rozzelle v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-02-29
• Black v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-09

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Light v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-04-04· cited 24×
• Rayl v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-25· cited 13×
• Duckett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-12-11· cited 13×
• McDaniel v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-07-21· cited 13×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-17· cited 7×