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Jackson v. State

Citations

  • 39 So. 3d 427
  • 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 9200
  • 2010 WL 2541705

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding fundamental error where court appeared to be punishing the defendant for failure to show remorse for a crime in which he denied involvement
  • reversing a sentence because the trial court improperly based the defendant’s sentence on his lack of remorse
  • finding fundamental error where the trial court’s statement “can reasonably be read only as conditioning the sentence, at least in part, upon appellant’s claim of innocence”
  • reversing sentence after sentencing judge said “since you show no remorse or regret for any of your actions I’m going to sentence you to 25 years”
  • listing cases that show as “established law” that a “statement made by the trial court [that] can reasonably be read only as conditioning the sentence, at least in part, upon [the defendant]’s claim of innocence” violates due process
  • fundamental error occurs where a trial court's statement “can reasonably be read only as conditioning the sentence, at least in part, upon appellant's claim of innocence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kahn, Rowe, Marstiller

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