Lee v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• basing decision on principle that a Florida prosecutor represents the state under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.171
• a law enforcement officer s recommendation in a PSI report violated the plea agreement because the officer was an agent of the State
• informant paid after each drug purchase, fee not contingent upon a successful prosecution
• prosecutor’s plea agreement that “‘state’” will recommend certain sentence binds not just state prosecutor’s office but “also precludes other state agents, such as state law enforcement officers, from making sentencing recommendations contrary to the terms of the agreements”
• “[0]nce a plea bargain based on a prosecutor’s promise that the state will recommend a certain sentence is struck, basic fairness mandates that no agent of the state make any utterance that would tend to compromise the effectiveness of the state’s recommendation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. MacDonald
  Washington Supreme Court· 2015-04-09· cited 42×
• State v. Sanchez
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-05-09· cited 34×
• Angrand v. Key
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 29×
• State v. Matson
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2003-11-26· cited 27×
• Duke v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2009-06-03· cited 24×
• State v. Lara
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2024-02-02· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-02-09· cited 18×
• State v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2000-08-28· cited 14×
• State v. Liskany
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2011-09-02· cited 14×
• State v. Poupart
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-06-12· cited 12×
• Lynn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-01-17· cited 9×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-06· cited 7×
• Heywood v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-12-21· cited 7×
• Blanton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-08-03· cited 5×
• State v. Sanchez
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-05-13· cited 5×
• Curry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-16· cited 4×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1992-07-17· cited 4×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-01-11· cited 3×
• State v. Carey Mitchell Baker
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2014-03-28· cited 2×
• Davis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-09· cited 2×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• State v. Glosson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-17· cited 132×
• Trushin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-11-04· cited 96×
• Wood v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-04-21· cited 13×
• Fortini v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-07-31· cited 12×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-01-15· cited 8×
• Wood v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-05-27· cited 3×