Hamilton 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 the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion for a mistrial where the improper comment was brief and unanticipated by the State, and where the trial court gave the jury a curative instruction
• finding no error in trial court’s denial of motion for mistrial where witness testimony indicated that a defendant, charged with first-degree murder, sexual battery, robbery, and kidnapping, was involved in another murder
• “A mistrial is appropriate only where the error is so prejudicial as to vitiate the entire trial.”
• improper comment was unanticipated by the State and was brief

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-08· cited 331×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-09-30· cited 130×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 122×
• Salazar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 109×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 97×
• Overton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-13· cited 80×
• Rivera v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-08-04· cited 20×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-06-03· cited 17×
• Hughes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-07-12· cited 13×
• Cartwright v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-11-03· cited 13×
• Jenkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-06· cited 11×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-11-13· cited 8×
• State v. Jackson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-22· cited 8×
• Adams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-11-20· cited 7×
• Joseph Edward Jordan v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-10-08· cited 7×
• Longval v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-11-30· cited 6×
• Tirado v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-03· cited 5×
• Melehan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-06· cited 4×
• Levi v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-03-19· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 155×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-10-11· cited 125×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-07· cited 117×
• Buenoano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-23· cited 67×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-10-28· cited 61×
• Bassett v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-03-08· cited 52×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-10-12· cited 37×