Downs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the murder of the defendant’s wife and the simultaneous aggravated assault on a witness justified the imposition of consecutive mandatory minimum sentences
• approving stacking of one twenty-five year capital felony mandatory minimum term with one three-year firearm mandatory minimum term where defendant killed woman and committed aggravated assault on witness
• consecutive minimum mandatory sentences for first degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of aggravated assault permissible

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Boler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 73×
• State v. Christian
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-05-01· cited 45×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-01-31· cited 17×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-02-02· cited 15×
• Lifred v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-10-05· cited 11×
• Valentin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-08-17· cited 10×
• Clarington v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-10· cited 5×
• Scott v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-08-27· cited 3×
• Mobley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-05-09· cited 3×
• Cheatham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-14· cited 3×
• Mosely v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-07-15· cited 3×
• Dyson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-06-07· cited 2×
• Fleming v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-12-02· cited 2×
• Parrimon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-07· cited 2×
• Wilson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-04-16· cited 1×
• Bonaventure v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-13· cited 1×
• Gaiter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-01· cited 1×
• Parkes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-31
• Mathis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-02-08
• Toland Jerome Bonner v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-04-05

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 230×
• State v. Enmund
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 104×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-20· cited 102×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 71×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-10· cited 66×
• State v. Boatwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-22· cited 34×
• McGouirk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 20×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 16×
• Blair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-17· cited 9×
• McDonald v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-06-18· cited 8×
• Downs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-01-17· cited 4×
• Blair v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-04· cited 4×