Lukehart 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 the finding of only one error was not sufficient to support a claim of cumulative error
• detaining man who told officers he had tried to commit suicide earlier in the day and implicated himself in the murder of a child
• noting “counsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to pursue a meritless motion”
• affirming the denial of Lukehart’s initial motion for postconviction relief filed premeditation and the lack of a felony independent of the homicide; (4) the trial court erred in instructing the jury on justifiable or excusable homicide; (5
• denying a new proportionality review in a petition for habeas corpus
• “[C]ounsel cannot be deemed ineffective for failing to make a meritless argument.” quoting Schoenwetter v. State, 46 So. 3d 535, 546 (Fla. 2010)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Washington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-04-27· cited 33×
• & SC16-224 Enoch D. Hall v. State of Florida & Enoch D. Hall v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-02-09· cited 29×
• Susan Khoury v. The Miami-Dade County School Board
  Eleventh Circuit· 2021-07-07· cited 29×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-10-17· cited 28×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-08· cited 26×
• William James Deparvine v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-24· cited 21×
• Norman Blake McKenzie v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-17· cited 20×
• Andrew Richard Lukehart v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2022-09-26· cited 20×
• Charles C. Peterson v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-06-26· cited 19×
• David Sylvester Frances v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-17· cited 17×
• Patrick C. Hannon v. State of Florida and
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-11-01· cited 17×
• Tavares J. WRIGHT, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-03-16· cited 9×
• Joseph P. Smith v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-09-11· cited 8×
• In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—report 2016-01
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-03-09· cited 5×
• Christin Bilotti v. Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2025-04-11· cited 5×
• James Daniel Turner v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-15· cited 4×
• & SC14-88 Jerone Hunter v. State of Florida and Jerone Hunter v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-04-30· cited 4×
• In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report 2018-13.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2019-06-06· cited 2×
• Lukehart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-08· cited 2×
• Collins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-07-31· cited 2×