Gleason 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 prosecutor's suggestion during closing argument that defendant, who was charged with attempted sexual battery and false imprisonment, had committed prior crimes and was about to commit murder to silence a witness was reversible error
• holding that it “was error to charge the jury on attempted sexual battery when ‘... there was no evidence to support such attempt and the only evidence prove[d] a completed offense.’ ” (citations omitted)
• reversing conviction for attempted sexual battery where no evidence supported the attempt and the evidence proved only the completed offense
• trial court reversibly erred in charging the jury on attempted sexual battery where no evidence supported such an attempt, and the only evidence proved a completed offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Wilson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-07-07· cited 11×
• Pepitone v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-30· cited 8×
• Brock v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-04-19· cited 6×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-02· cited 5×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-07-02· cited 5×
• Ramirez-Canales v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-11-17· cited 1×
• Morris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-30· cited 1×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stokes v. Wet'N Wild, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-04-07· cited 19×
• Keller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-09-26· cited 14×
• Henry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-02-29· cited 11×
• Pride v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-24· cited 9×