Crain v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that possession of a driver's license was required to support a conviction under section 322.34(5)
• holding that section 322.34(5) “does not outlaw driving by drivers never issued a license to drive” because the statute only applies to persons whose “license” has been revoked as a habitual traffic offender
• holding that the statute “refer[s] only to a ‘driver’s license,’ ‘a certificate that ... authorizes an individual to drive a motor vehicle.’” and that “[i]t ‘“is a firmly established rule that ‘[c]ourts must apply a statute as they find it’ ” ’ ” (footnote omitted) (citation omitted
• reversing a conviction under section 322.34(5) and remanding with instructions to “adjudicate [the defendant] guilty of the lesser included offense of driving without a valid driver’s license”
• reversing conviction under section 322.34(5) because defendant never had a driver’s license and remanding with instructions to adjudicate defendant guilty of the lesser-included offense of driving without a license, a second-degree misdemeanor
• finding fundamental error in the defendant’s conviction for driving on a suspended or revoked license where he never had a license at all, and remanding for an adjudication of guilt as to the lesser crime of driving without a valid driver’s license, which was proven

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Florida v. Daryl Miller
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-09-28· cited 10×
• Burgess v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-09-02· cited 8×
• State v. Miller
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-01· cited 7×
• Monroe v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-10-27· cited 7×
• Alphonso Finney v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-19· cited 3×
• SHAWN E. MYERS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-05-16· cited 1×
• Burgess v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-07-06

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anders v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 87,848×
• Holly v. Auld
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-05-03· cited 735×
• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-03-14· cited 149×
• Earnest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-08-31· cited 61×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-12-06· cited 49×
• Harris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-07-29· cited 35×
• State v. Aiuppa
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-05-01· cited 31×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-05-22· cited 23×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-19· cited 21×
• Carroll v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-24· cited 18×
• Guilder v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-03-30· cited 15×
• Tinker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-04-11· cited 12×
• State v. Bletcher
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-18· cited 12×
• Newton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-03-30· cited 12×
• DMV v. Patrick
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-02-04· cited 6×