Garcia v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that a procedural bar applies to claims that could have been argued on direct appeal if preserved
• using terms “prosecutorial misconduct” and “prosecutorial impropriety” interchangeably
• reversing two first-degree murder convictions due to prosecutorial misconduct
• “[W]hile the State is free to argue to the jury any theory of the crime that is reasonably supported by the evidence, it may not subvert the truth-seeking function of the trial by obtaining a conviction or sentence based on deliberate obfuscation of relevant facts.”
• reversing two death sentences due to prosecutorial misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-17· cited 305×
• State v. Fauci
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-04-10· cited 161×
• Asay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 117×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 115×
• Ruiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-01· cited 108×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-03· cited 108×
• Vining v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-07-03· cited 48×
• State v. McSwine
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2016-01-29· cited 46×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-20· cited 44×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-27· cited 30×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-09-02· cited 25×
• Jose Antonio Jimenez v. State of Florida & SC18-1321 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-10-04· cited 25×
• Medina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-02-10· cited 19×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-06-28· cited 11×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-03-16· cited 8×
• Gonzalez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-12-20· cited 5×
• Delmer Smith v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-03-05
• Billie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-12-27

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,617×
• Espinosa v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 324×
• Bertolotti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 198×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-06-05· cited 90×
• Dennis Edward Williams v. Frank Griswald, Warden, and Attorney General of the State of Alabama
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-10-11· cited 64×
• Nowitzke v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-06· cited 59×