Nesmith 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 court erred in failing to conduct a preliminary Nelson inquiry but instead proceeding straight to a Faretta hearing when the defendant asked for substitute counsel
• holding that court’s “failure to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the defendant’s reason for seeking to discharge court-appointed counsel is not harmless error; rather, it is ‘a structural defect in the trial requiring reversal as per se error’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Torres v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-08-20· cited 12×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-05-07· cited 8×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-11· cited 5×
• Boaz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-03-28· cited 4×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-02-28· cited 400×
• Maxwell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-11-05· cited 20×
• Bodiford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-12-18· cited 4×