Knight 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 a Faretta inquiry conducted at a pretrial hearing satisfied the requirement to offer counsel at the start of trial because the pretrial hearing was held to discuss the upcoming trial and there were no intervening proceedings
• noting the “delicate balance between a defendant’s right to counsel and the right to self- representation”
• “There is a delicate balance between a defendant’s right to counsel and the right to self-representation.”
• “Standby counsel is a constant reminder to a self-representing defendant of his right to court-appointed counsel at any stage of the proceeding.”
• “A defendant’s right to have court-appointed counsel discharged and right to represent himself becomes meaningless and a source of gamesmanship if the trial court has to offer counsel to the defendant each time he appears in court.”
• “A defendant’s right to have court-appointed counsel discharged and right to represent himself becomes meaningless and a source of 8 gamesmanship if the trial court has to offer counsel to the defendant each time he appears in court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ronald Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-05-01· cited 40×
• Monte v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-01-05· cited 36×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-05-06· cited 22×
• Howard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-26· cited 12×
• & SC14-567 Ronald Knight v. State of Florida & Ronald Knight v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-12-15· cited 11×
• Rutledge v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-01-21· cited 10×
• Neal v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-20· cited 8×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-05-22· cited 6×
• Bloodsaw v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-02-21· cited 5×
• Nichols v. Bell
  E.D. Tennessee· 2006-07-25· cited 4×
• Crosby v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-03-22· cited 2×
• Sutton v. Bell
  E.D. Tennessee· 2010-01-22· cited 1×
• Pugh v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-11-06· cited 1×
• Christopher J. Mars v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-08-03· cited 1×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-05-04
• Daontae Terrell Scott v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-08-14
• JACKSON PRIDEMORE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2020-08-05
• Michael Lawrence Woodbury v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2021-04-15
• Whitley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-06-26
• Curtis Leroy Sherrod, II v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-10-02

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-04· cited 2,192×
• Von Moltke v. Gillies
  Supreme Court· 1948-01-19· cited 1,645×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-02-28· cited 400×
• Traylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-16· cited 375×
• Elledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 200×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-14· cited 104×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-05-08· cited 82×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-11-12· cited 74×
• Wilder v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1963-09-24· cited 43×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-23· cited 34×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-03· cited 33×
• Daugherty v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-09-14· cited 32×
• Duncan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-29· cited 29×
• Augsberger v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-05-19· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-09· cited 22×
• Gamble v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-05-25· cited 21×
• Lamb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-12-28· cited 18×
• Mincey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-12-02· cited 13×