Stephens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• deciding that the \offense of loitering and prowling must be complete before any police action occurs\
• finding that the defendant's \mere presence in the parking lot [of a closed business] was insufficient to raise an immediate concern for the safety of persons or property\ (emphasis in original)
• finding sufficient evidence of first element where the defendant was in “the parking lot of a closed business in the early morning hours, and when he saw the [police] patrol car he moved into the shadows and crouched behind a car.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mills v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-04-27· cited 11×
• D.S.D. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-19· cited 11×
• Hollingsworth v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-10-01· cited 6×
• M.R. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-11-14· cited 5×
• Ferguson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-07-21· cited 4×
• DSD v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-19

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• E.C. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-01-27· cited 27×
• C.H.S. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-09-26· cited 20×
• Bowser v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-10-04· cited 14×
• R.D.W. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-08-23· cited 9×