State v. Wheeler

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court’s sua sponte dismissal of charge constituted an improper infringement upon state’s discretion to prosecute, notwithstanding trial court’s belief that the best interests of the public and the parties would be served by dismissal
• holding that trial court’s sua sponte dismissal of charge constituted an improper infringement upon the State’s discretion to prosecute, notwithstanding trial court’s belief that the best interests of the public and the parties would be served by dismissal
• explaining that despite trial court's belief that dismissal is in best interest of public and parties, the state attorney makes final determination to 2 prosecute
• “[T]he decision to prosecute does not lie with the victim of a crime.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tobkin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-14· cited 26×
• State v. BROSKY
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-02-01· cited 14×
• State v. Leon
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-10-31· cited 8×
• State v. Greaux
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-30· cited 7×
• S.K. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-09-17· cited 6×
• State v. Franklin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-05-13· cited 5×
• State v. Plate
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-05-10· cited 2×
• SK v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-09-17
• STATE OF FLORIDA v. A. J.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-02-14
• State v. Mark B. Snook
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-05-21
• D.L. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-09-17
• CITY OF HOLLYWOOD v. ANTHONY HAYNIE
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2022-04-20
• State v. A.J.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-02-14
• City of Miami Beach v. Adalberto Cosme
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-02-07

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cleveland v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-07-15· cited 54×
• State v. Cleveland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-09-03· cited 17×
• State v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-07-21· cited 11×
• McArthur v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-04-20· cited 11×
• State v. Bryant
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-10-10· cited 10×