Cawthon v. State of Florida

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 defendant constructively possessed a firearm because he had “control or dominion over it . . . as it was found in the vehicle that he was driving”
• affirming a felon-in-possession conviction because the defendant “had control over the rifle, as it was found in the vehicle that he was driving”
• affirming firearm conviction where the firearm had been found in the vehicle that the defendant had driven to work
• affirming felon-in-possession conviction because defendant constructively possessed a rifle found in the vehicle he was driving
• “[w]hether a defendant has proven that he was legally insane is a factual question” for the jury
• “[T]he defendant’s knowledge that one crime was wrong evidences that he understood that other criminal acts were inappropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).