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· 9/10/1997

State v. Emmund

Citations

  • 698 So. 2d 1318
  • 1997 WL 557646

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that \focus of the case should remain on the facts that are actually in dispute: whether the defendant possessed the firearm on the date charged\
  • approving trial court's order prohibiting the State from using the statutory term \violent career criminal\
  • reference to the defendant as a violent career criminal impinges on the defendant’s right to a fair trial as the jury will far more easily believe that he possessed a firearm
  • State precluded from referring to defendant’s violent criminal career in jury’s presence

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Judges: Cope, Green and Sorondo

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