O'HARA v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Under the facts in this case, the trial court abused its discretion in limiting voir dire questioning to less than two minutes per prospective juror.”
• limitation prevented counsel from asking questions concerning the theory of defense, as well as basic questions
• “A trial court abuses its discretion when the imposition of unreasonable time limitations or limitations on the number of questions results in the loss of this fundamental right.”
• “A trial court abuses its discretion when the imposition of unreasonable time limitations or limitations on the number of questions results in the loss of this fundamental right.”
• abuse of discretion to limit voir dire of 24 jurors to 40 minutes
• abuse of discretion to limit voir dire of 24 jurors to 40 minutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-08-21· cited 22×
• Campbell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-27· cited 18×
• Perry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-29· cited 17×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-09-25· cited 11×
• Miller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-05-09· cited 7×
• Ferrer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-11-04· cited 7×
• Watson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-25· cited 7×
• HERMANE THOMANY v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-07-18· cited 6×
• Mendez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-04-01· cited 6×
• DEMETRIUS JEFFREY HOPKINS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-07-12· cited 5×
• Anderson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-07-21· cited 3×
• Carver v. Niedermayer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-01-25· cited 1×
• Wilson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-14· cited 1×
• Black v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-11-08· cited 1×
• CHRISTOPHER A. STRACHAN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-10-02
• Byron Davonne McMath v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-05-07

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Maxwell v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-05-15· cited 248×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-08-29· cited 83×
• State v. Saunders
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-11-12· cited 78×
• Stano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-07-11· cited 65×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-03-24· cited 63×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-29· cited 23×
• Cooper v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-12-28· cited 18×
• Gosha v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-12-13· cited 15×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-04-13· cited 15×
• Pineda v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-12-18· cited 14×
• Hannah v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-05-31· cited 11×
• Dean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-04-10· cited 9×
• Brunson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-08-12· cited 8×
• James v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-03-12· cited 2×
• Zitnick v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-04-09· cited 2×
• Valdez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-09-10· cited 2×