Foster 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 conflict of interest existed when the public defender represented both the defendant and the confidential informant who was the state's key witness against the defendant
• reversing conviction on direct appeal where trial court’s action in making a joint appointment of counsel and allowing the joint representation to 1 For instance, claims under Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150 (1972
• \The sixth amendment right to the assistance of counsel contemplates legal representation that is effective and unimpaired by the existence of conflicting interests being represented by a single attorney.\
• ineffectiveness based on defense counsel's failure to object to repeated prosecutorial improprieties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Blanco v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-07· cited 141×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-30· cited 76×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-19· cited 76×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 60×
• Guzman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 46×
• Barclay v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 34×
• McCrae v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-06-18· cited 33×
• Dennis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-07-16· cited 20×
• Eure v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-07-21· cited 17×
• Washington v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-07-13· cited 17×
• Ross v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-12-11· cited 16×
• Rock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-23· cited 14×
• Sheena Latson v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-17· cited 13×
• Gregory v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-11-12· cited 12×
• Whitaker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-07-12· cited 11×
• Ventura v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-04-05· cited 11×
• Rock v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-07-07· cited 10×
• Morgan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-10-17· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-06-09· cited 7×
• Bellows v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-06-24· cited 7×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Glasser v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-02-09· cited 10,035×
• Holloway v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1978-04-03· cited 2,478×
• State v. Barber
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-06-12· cited 144×
• Belton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1968-12-17· cited 49×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1967-09-20· cited 42×