Dupree v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that evidence was sufficient for the jury to infer premeditation where the victim had been beaten prior to being strangled and scuffs marks on the ground at the scene of the killing suggested that a struggle had taken place
• holding “that the trial court properly excluded the proffered character evidence, because the defendant did not show how the victim’s character was pertinent, that is, he did not rely on the defense of self-defense or raise an issue concerning who was the initial aggressor”
• evidence of beating and strangulation sufficient to support premeditation because the strangulation gives the defendant time to “reflect upon his actions”
• defendant strangled a woman with whom he had been socializing the day before her body was found
• “[W]e have found no Florida case in which aggressive character evidence was allowed without evidence as well of self-defense or doubt regarding who was the first aggressor.”
• “[W]e have found no Florida case in which aggressive character evidence was allowed without evidence as well of self-defense or doubt regarding who was the first aggressor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-04-20· cited 100×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-12-24· cited 62×
• Love v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-09· cited 18×
• Gray Mart, Inc. v. Fireman's Fund Ins.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-12-17· cited 17×
• Douglas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-15· cited 15×
• Bedoya v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-09· cited 14×
• Gray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-08-01· cited 13×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-08-25· cited 12×
• Criner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-11-03· cited 11×
• Berube v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-02-25· cited 11×
• State v. Powell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-04-27· cited 11×
• State v. Escamilla
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-01-28· cited 9×
• Loehrke v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-11-20· cited 5×
• Douglas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-11-30· cited 5×
• Wysocki v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-08-12· cited 3×
• Chery v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-28· cited 3×
• Adams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-26· cited 2×
• Justin David Lantz v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-02-05· cited 2×
• State v. R. Donahue
  Montana Supreme Court· 2025-07-08· cited 1×
• State v. Gillespie, P1/99-1304a (r.I.super. 2006)
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2006-06-30

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-04-26· cited 283×
• McArthur v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-09-30· cited 185×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-02· cited 169×
• Sireci v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-06-10· cited 158×
• Hall v. Blake
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 150×
• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 149×
• Forbes v. Holiday Corp. Savings & Retirement Plan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-03· cited 133×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 108×
• Fenelon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-13· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Lanoue
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-07-30· cited 86×
• State v. Bingham
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-05-15· cited 82×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 71×
• Perrin v. Anderson
  Tenth Circuit· 1986-02-27· cited 69×
• Fine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1915-11-19· cited 35×
• United States v. John Andrew Greschner
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-04-21· cited 31×
• United States v. Fred D. Kelley and Paul P. Menz
  Eighth Circuit· 1976-12-03· cited 25×
• Webster v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-12-23· cited 22×
• Banks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-08-23· cited 20×
• Hounshell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1985-01-14· cited 20×