RONALD HOWARD v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• holding Miranda inapplicable to retrials of cases tried originally before the Court decided Miranda
• holding that, in order to convict of second degree felony-murder where a death results from the statutory felony of extortion, the jury must first find that the circumstances of the extortion demonstrated the defendant’s “conscious disregard of the risk to human life”
• stating that the “incongruities” resulting from “the problem inherent in prospective decision-making ... must be balanced against the impetus the technique provides for the implementation of long-overdue reforms, which otherwise could not be practically effected”
• Miranda standards do not apply to retrial of defendant whose first trial began prior to date of Miranda decision
• new rule not applicable to retrials begun after date of decision where original trial started before decision
• Miranda requirements do not have to be applied to retrials of cases originally tried prior to the date of the decision in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).