State v. Chapman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that fact that defendant's need to support his child outweighs his need for prison has been rejected as reason for downward departure
• concluding that fact that defendant had no arrests for several years prior to charged offense is not valid reason for departure
• holding that the fact that a defendant’s offense did not cause personal injuries is not a valid reason for departure
• noting the court had previously rejected the defendant's need to support his child as a reason for a downward departure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Stephenson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-02-11· cited 27×
• State of Florida v. Brian Mitchell Lee
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-06-01· cited 25×
• State v. Walker
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-03-29· cited 15×
• State v. McKnight
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-05-21· cited 6×
• State v. Baron C. Rogers
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-06-25· cited 1×
• State v. Garcia-Costa
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-20

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Atwaters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-28· cited 44×
• State v. Sachs
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-05-26· cited 40×
• Rafferty v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-01· cited 12×
• State v. Bray
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-06-04· cited 12×
• State v. Lisk
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-04-27· cited 3×
• State v. Green
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-26· cited 2×
• Surdo v. Surdo
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-19· cited 1×