State v. Hearns

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 Florida crime of battery on a law enforcement officer, “like battery itself, may be committed with only nominal contact”
• explaining that any intentional touching against another person’s will is battery even if insufficient to injure
• holding \that battery on a law enforcement officer is a qualifying offense for [PRR] sentencing\
• explaining that the only consideration in determining whether an offense is a forcible felony is the statutory elements of the offense
• finding that a “misdemeanor offense . . . can never be a forcible felony”
• explaining that simple battery “may be committed with only nominal contact”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).