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.

• reversing where judge suggested to prosecutor, after he finished questioning witness, to have witness identify defendant’s scars and tattoos on his forearm for the jury
• reversing because the trial judge suggested questions to the prosecutor about identifying marks on the defendant after “the prosecutor had indicated that direct examination of the witness was concluded, [and] the trial court sua sponte called a sidebar”
• trial court suggested a line of questioning to the prosecution with regard to identifying marks on the defendant’s body
• trial court suggested a line of questioning to the prosecution with regard to identifying marks on the defendant's body
• \The law in Florida expressly prohibits a judge from becoming an advocate for either party's position.\
• where the defense was misidentification, the trial court instructed the prosecutor to ask a witness to identify the defendant’s tattoos after the prosecutor had not done so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 38×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-11· cited 24×
• Kopel v. Kopel
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-11· cited 15×
• Valdes-Fauli v. Valdes-Fauli
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-02-17· cited 15×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-05-06· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-11-18· cited 7×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-27· cited 3×
• Ronnie Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-04-01· cited 1×
• Valley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-01-09· cited 1×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-11-22· cited 1×
• Garcia v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-02-13
• William Lee v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-27

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Chastine v. Broome
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-12-22· cited 45×
• McFadden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-28· cited 34×
• Lyles v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-09-15· cited 30×
• J. F. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-08-26· cited 30×
• Asbury v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-09-06· cited 17×