Johnson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “only in the most merciless and draconian system of justice” would a failure beyond 7 one’s control “result in a forfeiture of his bargained-for sentence”
• reasoning where defendant was arrested on his way to court, and thus failed to appear on time, there was no willful failure to appear, and the original, bargained-for sentence should be imposed
• defendant was entitled to mitigation where his failure to appear was due to the fact that, while on his way to report, he was arrested on a traffic charge
• “[W]here timely appearance for sentencing is made a condition of a plea agreement, a non- willful failure to appear will not vitiate the agreement . . . .”
• finding defendant's non-appearance involuntary where he had been arrested
• absent conviction, willful failure to appear impermissible departure ground

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cobb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-18· cited 32×
• Stephney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-08-07· cited 24×
• Searcy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-09· cited 24×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-06-03· cited 15×
• Robinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-13· cited 13×
• People v. Hayes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-08-18· cited 13×
• Gonzalez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-18· cited 11×
• Ingmire v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-05-06· cited 5×
• Orange v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-01-31· cited 5×
• Palmore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-15· cited 5×
• Hawkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-23· cited 5×
• Valladares v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-04-12· cited 4×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-06-23· cited 4×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-10-02· cited 4×
• Breland v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-03-12· cited 3×
• Fulton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-03-30· cited 3×
• Espinal v. Ryan
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-01-26· cited 2×
• Hut v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-05-19· cited 2×
• Steven C. Richardson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-08-19· cited 1×
• Santamaria v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-07-12· cited 1×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-24· cited 116×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-06-19· cited 14×