State v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• court may not dismiss information based on victim's expressed desire not to prosecute in face of prosecutor's desire that prosecution go forward
• determination as to whether to continue a prosecution rests with the prosecutor, the arm of the government representing the public interest, and not with the victim of a crime or the trial court
• court improperly dismissed information where state attorney determined to prosecute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gasset v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-04-29· cited 35×
• State v. Wheeler
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 14×
• State v. BROSKY
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-02-01· cited 14×
• State v. Vixamar
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-01-22· cited 12×
• State v. Bryant
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-10-10· cited 10×
• State v. Gonzalez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-06-25· cited 8×
• State v. Harris
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-28· cited 7×
• State v. Turner
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-03· cited 6×
• State v. Bouma
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-12-28· cited 3×
• State v. Pinsonnault
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-09-17
• State v. Conley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-11-14

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wilson v. Renfroe
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-12-07· cited 35×
• Bucolo v. Adkins
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-08· cited 32×
• State v. Schroeder
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-04-29· cited 25×
• State v. Cleveland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-09-03· cited 17×
• Hield v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-07-24· cited 11×
• State v. Hargis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-03-19· cited 9×
• State v. Eash
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-01-31· cited 4×