Freeman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that there was no evidence of statutory mitigation and nonstatutory mitigation not compelling
• surviving spouse of victim of prior violent felony should not have been permitted to testify concerning facts of prior offense during penalty phase of capital trial where testimony was not essential to proof of prior felony conviction
• upholding a death sentence supported by two aggravators—prior convictions for first-degree murder, armed robbery, and burglary of a dwelling with assault, all committed, three weeks prior—and corn mission during a burglary and commission for pecuniary gain (merged)
• death penalty not disproportionate where two aggravating factors weighed against mitigating evidence of low intelligence and abused childhood
• death penalty not disproportional when two aggravating circumstances were weighed against mitigating evidence of low intelligence and abused childhood
• error to allow surviving spouse of victim of prior violent felony to testify concerning facts of prior offense where testimony was not essential to proof of prior felony conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-08· cited 331×
• Freeman v. Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-07-31· cited 151×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 122×
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 114×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-13· cited 77×
• Kramer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-29· cited 63×
• Lebron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-01· cited 63×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-16· cited 51×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-02· cited 44×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-06-30· cited 39×
• Melton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-05-12· cited 36×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-12-13· cited 28×
• Street v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-03-31· cited 26×
• Elledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 23×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-11· cited 19×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-12-24· cited 14×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-30· cited 7×
• Robert Lee Hobart v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-04-30· cited 4×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-27· cited 112×
• In re Bers
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-27· cited 87×
• Teffeteller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-08-25· cited 75×
• Greene v. Massey
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-09· cited 64×
• Smalley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 57×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-11-01· cited 53×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-19· cited 40×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-08· cited 40×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 22×
• Proffitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 22×
• Perri v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-29· cited 16×