Hightower 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 for sentencing as a violent habitual felony offender, \other commitment\ did not include probation
• “Because Hightower did not commit the present felony within five years of his 1984 conviction, we reverse the habitual violent felony offender sentence and remand for resentencing within the guidelines.”
• “[I]f community control cannot be included in the definition of ‘other 1 This part of section 775.084 has since been amended. 2 commitment,’ then probation, which is a less restrictive form of control, also should not be included.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gavlick v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-08-11· cited 6×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-25· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-08-06· cited 4×
• Garcia v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-12-27· cited 1×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Allen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-04-30· cited 12×
• Bacon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-06-28· cited 7×