Morris 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 it is unnecessary for a defendant, at the close of all the evidence, to renew a previous motion for judgment of acquittal to preserve the issue for appellate review
• finding that a motion for judgment of acquittal can be made at the close of the State’s evidence, and in order to preserve the issue for appeal, the defendant is not required to renew the motion after the defendant has presented evidence
• applying same rule in juvenile context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Baker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-06-23· cited 8×
• Hartman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-24· cited 4×
• Amendment to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.380(b)
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-10· cited 3×
• Vathis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-03-12· cited 2×
• Redmond v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-07· cited 2×
• Vass v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-07-12
• E. H. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-11
• McClora v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-12-03
• Juan Bridon v. the State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-04-09

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Pennington
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-11-23· cited 39×
• In Interest of TMM
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-11· cited 17×
• Morris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-21· cited 5×