Guzman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “As long as there is support in the record for the trial court’s decision to deny a cause challenge, the decision will be upheld on appeal.”
• “Again, we emphasize that the trial judge was in the best position to observe [the prospective juror’s] demean- or, assess his candor, and determine whether [the prospective juror] was impartial.”
• “A trial judge has a unique vantage point from which to evaluate potential juror bias and make observations of the juror’s voir dire responses, which cannot be discerned by [an appellate] court’s review of a cold appellate record.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dorsey v. Reddy
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-06-23· cited 12×
• Suri v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-09-01· cited 5×
• Ibarrondo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-24· cited 4×
• Matarranz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-03· cited 3×
• Disla v. Blanco
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-11-27· cited 2×
• Collins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-14
• Coe v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-07-11
• Mans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-09-21
• Peter Sciallo v. the State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-09-18
• Jose Luis Carmonajaca v. the State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-05-14

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lusk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-26· cited 162×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-10-10· cited 126×
• Busby v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-03· cited 105×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-03· cited 63×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-17· cited 61×
• Mendoza v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 57×
• Fernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-02-25· cited 57×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-10· cited 55×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-04-13· cited 55×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-03-14· cited 24×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-05-05· cited 23×
• Skipper v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-17· cited 10×
• Martinez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-03· cited 9×
• Skipper v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-10-07· cited 9×
• Salgado v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-10-30· cited 8×
• Peri v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-04-13· cited 7×