Thornton 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 even if the argument was a “send a message” argument, it was harmless
• holding that even if the argument was a “send a message” argument, it was harmless
• holding that gun located in co-defendant's office was properly admitted to help identify the defendant as a participant in a robbery; the witnesses's description of the gun used in the robbery \matched the appearance\ of the gun admitted in evidence
• arguments which beseech the jury to convict a defendant for any reason except guilt are highly prejudicial and strongly discouraged

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Quentin Marcus Truehill v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-02-23· cited 49×
• Luton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-08-09· cited 22×
• O'CONNOR v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-01-29· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-06-21· cited 11×
• Dorsey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-01· cited 10×
• Reeves v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-06-13· cited 2×
• Russ v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-11-18· cited 2×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• State v. Cotton
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-15· cited 311×
• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 149×
• State v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-12· cited 147×
• Ryan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-19· cited 55×
• Coronado v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-05-17· cited 26×
• Gage v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-12-14· cited 18×
• Council v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-23· cited 17×
• Barr v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-08-23· cited 12×
• Davis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-09-24· cited 11×
• Randolph v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-02-15· cited 7×
• State v. Dix
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-12-18· cited 6×
• Sandoval v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-19· cited 6×
• McIntyre v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-02-12· cited 2×
• Lawton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-08-20· cited 2×
• Mohammed v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-12-27· cited 1×