Mitchell 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 the evidence supported a jury instruction on constructive possession when the premises where the contraband was found were jointly occupied
• concluding trial court erred when it refused to give special instruction that was “necessary” for the jury to consider the theory of defense
• noting that “[w]here joint possession of the premises is shown, the knowledge element may be met by contraband in plain view in the common areas of the premises.”
• rejecting argument that parsed the language of an instruction “to try to make it seem confusing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Duncan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-07-02· cited 26×
• Cliff Berry, Inc. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-01-04· cited 14×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-05-19· cited 12×
• Edmond v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-08-22· cited 12×
• Santiago v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-10-08· cited 11×
• Robinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-02-29· cited 8×
• Brickley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-06-24· cited 7×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-12-12· cited 7×
• Tucker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-08-12· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-05· cited 4×
• Nicholson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-27· cited 3×
• Jeffrey R. Nolley v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-02-08· cited 2×
• Whiting v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-07-10· cited 1×
• Basulto-Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-08· cited 1×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-03-03· cited 180×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-15· cited 151×
• Dupree v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-07· cited 70×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-10-28· cited 61×
• Murphy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-02· cited 29×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-26· cited 22×
• Scruggs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-04-25· cited 8×
• Hill v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-05-13· cited 8×
• J.M. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-05· cited 5×