Simmons v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a juror’s spouse being a law enforcement officer was race-neutral on its face
• finding that because the trial court focused on the fact the State offered a seemingly race-neutral reason and accepted that the State’s reason for the strike as helpful for the defense, the trial court bypassed the genuineness inquiry
• reversing on same grounds as in Tetreault and distinguishing from prior cases where appellate courts affirmed, given that record did not disclose that the trial court ever reached step three
• finding the court failed to conduct a genuineness inquiry when it merely stated, “That is a race-neutral reason. Whether or not we view it favorable for the State or favorable for the Defense, it is a race-neutral reason.”
• \There are no specific words which the court must state to satisfy step three of the Melbourne analysis.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 65×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-04-05· cited 43×
• Cook v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-12-05· cited 11×
• Landis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-16· cited 8×
• Spencer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-03-18· cited 7×
• Ivy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-03-18· cited 7×
• Carrillo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-08-08· cited 6×
• Victor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-15· cited 6×
• Tetreault v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-12-31· cited 5×
• Bellamy v. Crosby
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-25· cited 3×
• Sutton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-03-12· cited 3×
• Willie Smith, Jr. v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-13· cited 3×
• James Guzman v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-02-22· cited 2×
• Collier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-01-31· cited 2×
• Mitchell Landis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-16
• James Guzman v. State of Florida – Corrected Opinion
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-03-01
• Daniel Jacob Craven, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-10-22
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-08

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Melbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-05· cited 356×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-05-02· cited 21×
• Fleming v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-09-12· cited 12×
• Bowden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-05-15· cited 12×