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.

• recognizing that because the defendant’s sentences were technically not illegal, “[u]nder settled law, he would be procedurally barred from raising errors regarding the imposition of the sentence because the law of this case is that the sentence is valid”
• recognizing a trial court’s misunderstanding that a life sentence was permissible, not mandatory, did not result in an illegal sentence under rule 3.800(a) because the life sentence was technically legal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Furney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-06-26· cited 5×
• Carswell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-11-18· cited 4×
• Prince v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-10-17· cited 2×
• Singleton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-17· cited 1×
• Jolly v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-01-30· cited 1×
• Bray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-12-14· cited 1×
• Robert Anderson v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-11-04
• Juan I. Barriera v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-07-29
• ANTHONY MCMILLAN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-09-05
• Erlsten v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-01-18
• CLAY ROBINSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-03-22
• EDDIE JOE RICHARDSON vs STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-09-15
• Hector Negron-Espada v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-11-26

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burdick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-06· cited 189×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-24· cited 163×
• Burdick v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-07-25· cited 32×
• Stephens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-18· cited 16×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-10-12· cited 12×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-08-07· cited 7×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-03-26· cited 6×
• Adams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-05-12· cited 5×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-04-08· cited 3×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-26· cited 2×
• Crumitie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-17· cited 2×