State v. Drury

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the rule of lenity permitted the trial court to sentence a juvenile to a youthful offender sentence rather than a 10/20/Life sentence when the juvenile was charged under the previous version of section 985.557(2)(d)(l)
• trial court has discretion to sentence defendant as youthful offender rather than under 10/20/Life statute where latter enactment did not contain any language which superseded the Youthful Offender Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Yegge v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-04-15· cited 8×
• Ruth v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-02-08· cited 6×
• State v. Waldron
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-01-24· cited 6×
• Bennett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-12-22· cited 5×
• State v. Blackburn
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-05
• State v. Allen
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-04-15

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McKendry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-05-19· cited 90×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-10-08· cited 64×
• State v. Winters
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-03-31· cited 47×
• Holmes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-06-14· cited 11×
• State v. Richardson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-16· cited 10×
• State v. Oglester
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-08-21· cited 3×