Covington v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that a prosecutor’s comment that the case “‘[came] down’” to who the jury believed was in error
• holding it is permissible for the State to argue that one witness should be believed and another should not, but the State cannot misstate the burden of proof while doing so
• finding a prosecutorial comment that was subsequently clarified to be harmless error where it was “an isolated mention by the prosecutor followed by a correct statement of the burden of proof”
• “It is of course permissible for counsel to argue, based on the record, that one witness should be believed and another should not.”
• improper to argue to jury that defendant must show defense witnesses are more believable; error harmless where prosecutor clarified statement to remove doubt as to burden of proof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Atkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-07-28· cited 4×
• Mitchell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-07-31· cited 4×
• Maharaj v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-01-18· cited 3×
• TORRES-MATMOROS v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-07· cited 2×
• Sweeting v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-12· cited 1×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Hector Francisco Molina
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-06-10· cited 355×
• Breedlove v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 148×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 115×
• Shellito v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-11· cited 69×
• State v. Aguilar
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1994-04-11· cited 28×
• Clewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-10-06· cited 19×
• Northard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-12· cited 18×
• Bass v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-07-21· cited 18×
• Forman v. Wallshein
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-04-17· cited 16×
• People v. Crane
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1999-11-15· cited 15×
• Perry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-07· cited 9×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-09-02· cited 6×
• Coley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-05-04· cited 2×
• Riggins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-04-26· cited 2×