Smith 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 an instruction which “gutted” the defendant’s key defense was so erroneous as to affect the verdict
• finding fundamental error where forcible felony instruction negated defendant’s key defense for his use of nondeadly force
• revers ing conviction for aggravated battery where the improper forcible felony instruction “gutted Appellant’s key defense and very likely confused the jury” in a classic “he said/she said” case
• “Self-defense is ‘an affirmative defense that has the effect of legally excusing the defendant from an act that would otherwise be a criminal offense.’” (quoting Mosansky v. State, 33 So.3d 756, 758 (Fla. 1st DCA 2010))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Floyd v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-26· cited 33×
• Garrett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-22· cited 26×
• Sims v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-03-24· cited 11×
• Andujar-Ruiz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-11-16· cited 9×
• Crimins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-02-08· cited 8×
• Woods v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-03· cited 8×
• Charlie Williams v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-09-09· cited 7×
• Ramirez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-01-16· cited 7×
• Barnett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-11-12· cited 6×
• Dooley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-10-14· cited 5×
• Furney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-06-26· cited 5×
• Hardison v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-14· cited 5×
• LISA ANN GRANT v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-03-06· cited 3×
• Graham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-11-07· cited 3×
• Stewart v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-01-25· cited 3×
• Mickens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-09· cited 2×
• Michael Tramel v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-05-11
• Akeen Kadoni Paul v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-07-22
• Tramel v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-14