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Gibson v. State

Citations

  • 721 So. 2d 363
  • 1998 WL 746011

How courts have described this case

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

  • deeming it irrelevant that “the Florida Legislature never changed the wording of the sexual battery statute”
  • applying proportionality analysis to mandatory sentence of life without possibility of parole for the crime of penile union with vagina of girl less than twelve years of age
  • deeming it irrelevant that “the Florida Legislature never changed the wording of the sexual battery statute”
  • deeming it irrelevant that “the Flor- ida Legislature never changed the wording of the sexual battery statute”
  • life without possibility of parole not unconstitutional for penile capital sexual battery
  • collecting cases from Florida and other jurisdictions

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Judges: Altenbernd

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