Fields 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 erroneous instruction on the defendant’s sole affirmative defense deprived him of a fair trial where the defense was plausible
• holding that the erroneous instruction on the defendant’s sole affirmative defense deprived him of a fair trial where the defense was plausible
• reversing conviction where the trial court erroneously instructed the jury that they could only acquit the defendant if the defense of self-defense was established beyond a reasonable doubt
• reversing based upon erroneous self-defense instruction that potentially left the jury with the impression that it had to find the defendant guilty if he did not prove his claim of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mosansky v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-20· cited 15×
• Talley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-02-22· cited 9×
• Falwell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-27· cited 7×
• Spicer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-11-13· cited 4×
• Bryant Daniel Neal v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-06-03· cited 3×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-06-05· cited 1×
• Anthony Lamar Simmons v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-10-15· cited 1×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-11-13

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-06· cited 309×
• Ray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-30· cited 256×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-02-21· cited 123×
• Sochor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-05-06· cited 103×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-21· cited 87×
• Archer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-01-28· cited 83×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-06-28· cited 43×
• Fowler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-10· cited 23×
• Holiday v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-24· cited 22×
• Murray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-09-13· cited 21×
• Novak v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-02-06· cited 10×
• Standard Jury Inst. in Crim. Cases (2006-3)
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-01-25· cited 8×
• Conrad v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-03-28· cited 3×
• Campbell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-12-19· cited 2×
• Testerman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-10-31· cited 1×
• Hadnot v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-05-18· cited 1×