Lawton 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 sentence which exceeds the suspended portion of a true split sentence is illegal
• holding that substantive due process requires that a patently illegal sentence be corrected despite the law of the case doctrine
• holding that twelve year sentence imposed after the defendant violated a term of supervision was fundamental error when the defendant should have only received a five year sentence
• concluding illegal sentence was fundamental error that needed to be corrected because the result was a manifest injustice to the defendant
• holding substantive due process requires patently illegal sentence be corrected despite the law of case doctrine
• holding substantive due process requires patently illegal sentence be corrected despite, the law of case doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Figueroa v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-30· cited 18×
• Stephens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-18· cited 16×
• Bronk v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-01-22· cited 12×
• Crotts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-09-05· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-16· cited 5×
• Stoutamire v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-10· cited 3×
• Shultz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-04-16· cited 3×
• Isom v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-31· cited 3×
• Chappel v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-12-21· cited 2×
• Beltran v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-09-03· cited 2×
• Standford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-08· cited 1×
• Van Royal v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-19· cited 1×
• Knight v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-19
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-10
• Sanchez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-15
• Richardson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-19
• Wagner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-30
• Ball v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-09-12

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Poore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-22· cited 288×
• State v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-11-20· cited 45×
• Lawton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-05-08· cited 5×
• State v. Carra
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-06-20· cited 2×