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· 3/19/2015

Rebecca Lee Falcon v. State of Florida

Citations

  • 162 So. 3d 954
  • 40 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 151
  • 2015 Fla. LEXIS 534
  • 2015 WL 1239365

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding \that juvenile offenders whose convictions and sentences were final prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Miller may seek collateral relief based on that decision\
  • concluding Miller should apply retroactively and any defendant whose sentence is invalidated by the retroactive application of Miller should be resentenced under the 2014 Florida legislation pursuant to Horsley
  • holding that Miller applies retroactively
  • holding that Miller applies retroactively
  • holding that Miller applies retroactively
  • rejecting State’s argument that because a Supreme Court decision only invalidated a statute as applied to a specific subgroup of people, the decision was only a procedural refinement such that retroactive application was unnecessary

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Judges: Pariente, Labarga, Lewis, Quince, Canady, Polston, Perry

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