State v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that consecutive firearm mandatory minimum sentences are permissible when a single incident involves shootings that are “two separate and distinct offenses involving two separate and distinct victims”
• shooting of woman, then of man, then again of same woman does not constitute single criminal episode
• stacking approved where the defendant shot one victim and shot at, but missed, a second victim
• stacking permissible where defendant shot and killed two victims during the same episode
• consecutive three-year mandatory minimum sentences appropriate where defendant shot woman four times in her home, followed her outside, paused to fire at the woman's son, and then shot the woman twice more
• consecutive mandatory terms appropriate where defendant shot victim four times in her home, followed her outside, paused to fire at the victim's son, and then shot the woman twice more

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

61 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ronald Williams v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-03-03· cited 128×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 71×
• Leronnie Lee Walton v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-12-01· cited 71×
• Walton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-02-12· cited 63×
• State v. Christian
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-05-01· cited 45×
• State v. Sousa
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-05-26· cited 43×
• State v. Boatwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-22· cited 34×
• LeCroy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-10-20· cited 33×
• Kelly v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-07-13· cited 30×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-08· cited 30×
• Woods v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-02· cited 23×
• Irizarry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-08· cited 23×
• Connolly, Jr. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-07-29· cited 23×
• Nicholson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-04-19· cited 20×
• Junco v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-08-11· cited 17×
• Dowdell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-12-15· cited 16×
• Newton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-15· cited 15×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-01-18· cited 14×
• Vickery v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-11-13· cited 12×
• Lifred v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-10-05· cited 11×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 230×
• State v. Enmund
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 104×
• State v. Ames
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-04-18· cited 31×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-04-18· cited 25×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-06-12· cited 2×