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 trial court departed from the role of neutral arbitrator by calling its own witness during sentencing hearing
• finding fundamental error where trial court called its own fact witness who provided substantial portion of testimony against defendant
• trial court that called its own witness in sentencing hearing departed from the role of neutral arbitrator
• Trial court's departure from its role of neutral arbiter amounted to fundamental error.
• Trial court's departure from its role of neutral arbiter amounted to fundamental error.
• Trial court’s departure from its role of neutral arbiter amounted to fundamental error.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• ANTHONY CHAS PARR v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-05-23· cited 4×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-27· cited 3×
• William Lee v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-27
• NESTOR MIRANDA v. JAMES REYES, etc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-03-24
• Derek Rosa v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-01-02

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chastine v. Broome
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-12-22· cited 45×
• Lyles v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-09-15· cited 30×
• Mathew v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-02-26· cited 20×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-06-20· cited 15×
• Cagle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-07-19· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-05-06· cited 8×
• Padalla v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-03-04· cited 6×
• Edwards v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-02-15· cited 6×