Jerkins v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[t]he defense of parental privilege, like self-defense, is a complete defense” and that, “[i]n response to a charge of battery, Willis raised the defense of parental discipline privilege”
• adopting Restatement of the Law (Second) Torts, § 147(1) (Am. Law Inst. 1965)
• parental privilege was a defense when mother swatted child five to seven times with a belt or electric cord, leaving bruises
• “A parent is privileged to apply such reasonable force . . . upon his [or her] child as he [or she] reasonably believes to be necessary for its proper control, training, or education” [citation omitted]
• parent’s use of a belt or extension cord to strike her son five to seven times on the buttocks held to be reasonable corporal punishment when it was reasonably necessary and appropriate to compel obedience to Mother’s insistence that her son tell the truth
• parent’s use of a belt or extension cord to strike her son five to seven times on the buttocks held to be reasonable corporal punishment when it was reasonably necessary and appropriate to compel obedience to Mother’s insistence that her son tell the truth

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).