O'CONNOR v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• hold-ing that “where the evidence at trial does not link a weapon seized to the crime charged, the weapon is inadmissible”
• reversing defendant’s convictions for first-degree murder and armed robbery because of the admission of evidence found in his house, including a shotgun and bullet-proof vest, which were unconnected to the crime
• photographs of shotgun and bullet proof vest were not relevant to the crime charged and were improperly admitted into evidence
• “where the evidence at trial does not link a weapon seized to the crime charged, the weapon is inadmissible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-07· cited 21×
• Gartner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-07-26· cited 12×
• Zama v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-03-02· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-20· cited 9×
• Downs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-07-13· cited 7×
• Metayer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-23· cited 6×
• Woodall v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-25· cited 4×
• Foster v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-11-10· cited 1×
• McIntosh v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-10-15· cited 1×
• VINCESON DAWSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-07-10
• TREMAINE BEARD v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-09-18
• LENSKY JEANBART v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2020-04-01
• Maldonado v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-06-29
• BOBBY SCOTT v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2021-12-08
• Valencia v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-08-23
• TAVARIS ANTONIO JOHNSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-03-13

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-12-16· cited 292×
• Huhn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-16· cited 36×
• Dean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-02· cited 34×
• Shelton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-05-31· cited 26×
• Dias v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-13· cited 26×
• Rigdon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-05-26· cited 21×
• Council v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-23· cited 17×
• Sosa v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-07-05· cited 12×
• Thornton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-10-06· cited 8×
• Lawrence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-02-09· cited 7×
• Fugate v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-09· cited 3×