Sanders 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 trial court, in determining proper sentence of a defendant, may validly consider co-defendant’s below-guideline sentence, where the co-defendant is “at least, if not more, culpable than defendant”
• the trial judge’s belief that defendant was not likely to engage in criminal conduct again was not sufficient reason for departure
• \each [downward departure] must be decided entirely on its own facts and circumstances\
• lack of prior convictions cannot be basis for downward departure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Sachs
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-05-26· cited 40×
• Felts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-01-20· cited 13×
• Marsh v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-06-27· cited 12×
• State v. Davis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-01-18· cited 8×
• State v. Scaife
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-28· cited 7×
• State v. Ashley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-09-26· cited 7×
• State v. McMullen
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-08-16· cited 6×
• State v. Davis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-06-30· cited 5×
• State v. Riley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-09-13· cited 5×
• State v. Fernandez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-22· cited 5×
• Marchetta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-18· cited 3×
• State v. Perez-Diaz
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-03-16· cited 2×
• State v. Bingham
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-10-11· cited 2×
• State v. Nelson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-07-29· cited 2×
• Profetto v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-12-30· cited 1×
• State v. Mitchell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-01-31· cited 1×
• State v. Davis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-02-17· cited 1×
• State v. Raskiewicz
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-01-13· cited 1×
• State v. Zaiser
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-08-03· cited 1×
• State v. Stone
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-12-02· cited 1×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Albritton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 397×
• Slater v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-06-25· cited 94×
• Von Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-03-13· cited 33×
• Von Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-11-27· cited 8×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-01-03· cited 4×
• State v. Sanders
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-08-13· cited 2×