Melton 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 counsel is not deficient in failing to call witnesses who refuse to cooperate with the defense and are therefore unavailable for trial; Occhicone v. State, 768 So. 2d 1037, 1048 (Fla. 2000
• “Claims alleging that a defendant’s jury was not a fair cross-section of the community should be raised on direct appeal.”
• “If a witness would not have been available to testify at trial, then the defendant will not be able to establish deficient performance or prejudice from counsel’s failure to call, interview, or investigate that witness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Owen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 52×
• Toney Deron Davis v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-10· cited 48×
• Barwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-06-30· cited 30×
• Stallworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 29×
• Mendoza v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-07-08· cited 26×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-12· cited 17×
• Jermaine Lebron v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-01-30· cited 17×
• Duane Eugene Owen v. Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-07-11· cited 15×
• Eaglin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-10-08· cited 14×
• Dailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-31· cited 13×
• Melton v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2015-03-03· cited 7×
• Antonio Lebaron Melton v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-05-26· cited 3×
• Douglas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-02-07· cited 1×
• Antonio Lebaron Melton v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2015-03-02
• Antonio Lebaron Melton v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2023-05-04
• Albert Louis Barnes v. the State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-09-04
• David Kelsey Sparre v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2025-12-04
• Raymond Bright v. State of Florida & Raymond Bright v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2026-02-26

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• Strickler v. Greene
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-17· cited 4,383×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Michel v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1956-01-23· cited 2,788×
• Schriro v. Summerlin
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 2,419×
• Rompilla v. Beard
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-20· cited 1,891×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Affronti v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-12-05· cited 1,308×
• Espinosa v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 324×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 322×
• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 321×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-11-14· cited 320×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-17· cited 305×