Cleveland 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 \state attorney has complete discretion in making the decision to charge and prosecute\
• “The pretrial intervention program is merely an alternative to prosecution and should remain in the prosecutor’s discretion.”
• pretrial diversion decision of state attorney is prosecutorial in nature and thus not subject to judicial review
• court may not override prosecutor's refusal to consent to pretrial diversion of defendant, essentially a conditional decision not to prosecute
• “ ‘[T]he discretion of a prosecutor in deciding whether and how to prosecute is absolute in our system of criminal justice.’ ”
• with regard to the general pretrial intervention program of section 948.08(2), the decision of the state attorney is prosecutorial in nature and not subject to judicial review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

48 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Cotton
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-15· cited 311×
• Billis v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-10-05· cited 142×
• State v. Bloom
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-06· cited 83×
• Reynaldo Castillo v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-03-15· cited 59×
• McKnight v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-17· cited 54×
• Wilcott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-21· cited 44×
• State v. Barritt
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 26×
• State v. Wheeler
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 14×
• State v. BROSKY
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-02-01· cited 14×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-05-12· cited 13×
• State v. W.D.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-05-08· cited 12×
• A.D.W. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-26· cited 11×
• State v. Green
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-07-01· cited 9×
• State v. Board
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-08-16· cited 9×
• Hudson v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-10-05· cited 9×
• Heggen v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1990-10-05· cited 9×
• State v. C.C.B.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-03-28· cited 9×
• State v. Simons
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-11-13· cited 8×
• Griffith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-03-28· cited 8×
• State v. Harris
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-28· cited 7×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Superior Court (On Tai Ho)
  California Supreme Court· 1974-03-27· cited 180×
• Commonwealth v. Kindness
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-03-31· cited 61×
• State v. Jogan
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-09-23· cited 18×
• State v. Cleveland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-09-03· cited 17×
• State v. Eash
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-01-31· cited 4×