St. James v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• PRR statute “mandate[s] life for a defendant convicted of a felony punishable by life, such as attempted first-degree murder”
• “Where the movant’s initial brief fails to establish that a claim can be amended in good faith to become legally sufficient, or how it could be done, this court will not reverse a summary denial order and remand to allow further amendments.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Michael Edward Norman v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-05-20

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Spera v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-11-01· cited 504×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 119×
• Hammond v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-24· cited 45×
• Dempsey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-10-12· cited 11×
• State v. Elkin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-02-11· cited 9×
• Gutierrez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-12-05· cited 8×
• Cortes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-21· cited 7×