Sinclair 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 \marijuana identification by nonscientific means is a settled issue in Florida law\
• holding that identification of cocaine by the arresting officer at probation violation hearing is sufficient for revocation where the officer worked street level narcotics and handled cocaine daily, even though the State did not produce a written lab report
• holding drug identification by the arresting officer at a probation violation hearing was sufficient to revoke probation, even though the State did not introduce a lab report
• “We hold that a sufficiently experienced officer may opine regarding the identity of crack cocaine.”
• “[A] sufficiently experienced officer may opine regarding the identity of crack cocaine.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-05-13· cited 7×
• R.C. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-05-25· cited 5×
• Forbes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-23· cited 3×
• State v. Hampton
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-10-01· cited 1×
• EXANTUS v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-10-07
• R.C. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-03-11
• Goodman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-11-14
• K.K. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-17
• C.J. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-04-27
• MANUEL ALBERTO GALLARDO v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-07-26
• Campbell v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-03-26
• Jason Brandon Mervil v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-04-22

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. James Earl Paiva
  First Circuit· 1989-12-21· cited 192×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• United States v. Dwayne Dolan
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-11-11· cited 129×
• Eddie Griffin v. John Spratt and J. Kevin Kane
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-07· cited 108×
• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-13· cited 98×
• United States v. Walters
  First Circuit· 1990-05-31· cited 68×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-05-10· cited 64×
• United States v. Robinson
  First Circuit· 1998-05-08· cited 61×
• State v. Hernandez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-03-07· cited 56×
• State v. Hernandez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-04-18· cited 51×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1997-11-19· cited 42×
• A.A. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-12-04· cited 38×
• Copeland v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1982-01-18· cited 28×
• State v. Raulerson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-09-16· cited 24×
• State v. Rubio
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1990-08-09· cited 23×
• Pama v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-11-17· cited 23×
• Dean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-11-04· cited 22×
• Weaver v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-05-23· cited 19×
• Arnold v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-12-03· cited 11×
• Sharpe v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-11-05· cited 1×