Nelson 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 proper predicate laid where testimony revealed that witness had heard from four or five people in the victim’s neighborhood that the victim had been a violent drug dealer and used violence for enforcement
• ‘“[I]f there is the slightest evidence of an overt act by the victim which may be reasonably regarded as placing the defendant in imminent danger, all doubts as to the admission of self-defense evidence must be resolved in favor of the accused.’” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Berrios v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-07· cited 9×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-03· cited 5×
• Simon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-09· cited 3×
• Wilson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-02· cited 2×
• B.B. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-02· cited 1×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Fine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1915-11-19· cited 35×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-04· cited 31×
• Melvin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-01-15· cited 3×