Richards 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• holding that the erroneous use of an outdated jury instruction on the justifiable use of deadly force requiring the defendant to retreat if possible negated defendant’s claim of self-defense and rose to the level of fundamental error
• holding outdated jury instruction on justifiable use of deadly force effectively negated defendant’s claim of self defense, and amounted to fundamental error
• finding that jury instructions referencing a “duty to retreat” rose “to the level of fundamental error” where the defendant’s “sole defense at trial was that he acted in self-defense” thereby entitling him to a Stand Your Ground defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Floyd v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-26· cited 33×
• Anthony Cruz v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-05-20· cited 26×
• McCoy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-12-21· cited 22×
• John Thomas Dorsey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-10-08· cited 20×
• Morgan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-11-22· cited 18×
• Luis Rios v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-13· cited 14×
• Richards v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-12-27· cited 9×
• Amaro v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-05-24· cited 1×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-12-22
• Armstrong v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-29
• JOSHUA NATHANIEL PEART v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-03-15
• Cordell v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-06-19

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-05-22· cited 49×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-05-14· cited 20×