Stevens v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there was no willful or deliberate violation of probation where probationer was absent from meeting of sex offender program due to inept and negligent conduct
• holding that the defendant’s act of missing a single meeting of a sex offender’s program despite his “quixotic and inept” attempts to make it there on time, “does not support the conclusion that the defendant willfully or deliberately missed the meeting”
• probationer's unsuccessful, \quixotic and inept\ attempt to attend classes for sex offenders precluded finding of willful violation of probationary term requiring attendance
• probationer's unsuccessful, \quixotic and inept\ attempt to attend class for sex offenders based on transportation problems precluded a finding of willful violation of probationary term requiring attendance
• absent a showing that the failure to attend a meeting was a product of a knowing and willful act by the defendant, probation may not be revoked
• noncompliance based on ineptness or negligence not willful

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-05· cited 108×
• Van Wagner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-04-12· cited 68×
• Steiner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-09· cited 44×
• Martoral v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-01-17· cited 24×
• Garcia v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-10-24· cited 19×
• Meade v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-11-16· cited 15×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-02-11· cited 12×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-04-24· cited 10×
• Remich v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-07-02· cited 8×
• Riddle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-04-05· cited 8×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-10-06· cited 7×
• Mier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-03-22· cited 7×
• Hicks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-12-29· cited 6×
• Filmore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-03-12· cited 6×
• McCray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-15· cited 5×
• Dassau v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-07· cited 4×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-04-17· cited 3×
• Hugan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-04-27· cited 2×
• Buckins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-07-18· cited 2×
• Rousey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-08-30· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chatman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-12-20· cited 27×
• Jess v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-06-03· cited 24×
• Shaw v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-12-24· cited 23×
• Gardner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-12-27· cited 14×
• Jacobsen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-12-30· cited 13×
• May v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-07-24· cited 12×
• Little v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-02-12· cited 4×