Chambers v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that inflammatory statements that invoked the “sympathy or anger of the jury” may have improperly “influenced the jury to reach a more severe verdict than it would have otherwise rendered”
• recognizing that inflammatory statements that invoked the “sympathy or anger of the jury” may have improperly “influenced the jury to reach a more severe verdict than it would have otherwise rendered”
• reiterating that \convictions for both armed burglary of a dwelling and burglary of a dwelling with an assault or battery violate principles of double jeopardy because they were based upon a single forced entry and involved a single victim\
• finding the prosecutorial commentary on the defendant’s immoral and improper relationship with 16-year-old victim in burglary, assault, and robbery prosecution that did not involve the age of the victim was an improper and irrelevant character attack
• “[T]he prosecutor’s expressed indignation at the ... need for her to face questioning by defense counsel as to her credibility was improper.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Petruschke v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-03-06· cited 12×
• Crew v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-29· cited 12×
• Coleman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-05-30· cited 6×
• Elisha v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-02-07· cited 4×
• Grubb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-09-08· cited 2×
• Stewart v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-22
• Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Michael Jordan Lipp, etc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-03-27
• Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Michael Jordan Lipp, Etc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-10-29

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bertolotti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 198×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 140×
• Garron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-05-19· cited 101×
• Peterson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-05· cited 53×
• Johns v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-27· cited 16×
• Jenkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-06-21· cited 8×
• Gonzalez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-11-05· cited 4×
• Valdez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-10-07· cited 3×