State v. Griffith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant waives his right to be charged as a juvenile by not asserting it at the trial level
• “Sexual battery by a person under eighteen upon a child under twelve is a life felony punishable by life imprisonment.”
• rule of lenity requires assumption that offense occurred prior to January 1, 1995
• “While the age of the defendant when the offense was committed rather than when the charges are filed controls whether the charges should be filed in juvenile court or criminal court, Griffith’s convictions must stand because he failed to object to being tried in adult court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Partridge v. Partridge
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-15· cited 20×
• Cairl v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-01-03· cited 13×
• Gilbert v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-10-16· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-12-21· cited 7×
• Glynn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-03-31· cited 6×
• Duer v. Moore
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-22· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-07-16· cited 6×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-08· cited 4×
• Ordonez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-14· cited 4×
• WESLEY BROWN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-12· cited 4×
• Dempsey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-07-20· cited 4×
• Maitre v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-11-08· cited 3×
• Turner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-10-04· cited 3×
• Cote v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-08-30· cited 2×
• Miller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-12-17· cited 2×
• Cote v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-17· cited 1×
• Howard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-08-14· cited 1×
• R.J., a Child v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-02
• Major v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-03-15
• Griffith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-09-09

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Rhoden
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-04-05· cited 176×
• State v. King
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-12-22· cited 94×
• Troutman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-11-04· cited 76×
• Sirmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-06-24· cited 29×
• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1909-06-15· cited 21×
• Griffith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-02-23· cited 9×
• State v. A.N.F.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-28· cited 9×
• Veach v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-04· cited 5×
• State v. Veach
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-02-03· cited 4×
• State v. Fitzpatrick
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-04-14· cited 4×