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Valdes v. State

Citations

  • 3 So. 3d 1067
  • 34 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 116
  • 2009 Fla. LEXIS 148
  • 2009 WL 217976

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the degree-variant exception applies “only when the statute itself provides for an offense with multiple degrees”
  • holding that the second exception only applies when a criminal statute itself provides for an offense with multiple degrees
  • holding that the degree-variant exception applies \only when the statute itself provides for an offense with multiple degrees\
  • stating that a crime that has aggravated forms of the basic offense “can evince a relationship of degree”
  • explaining that section 775.21(4)(b)(3) only applies to category 1 necessary lesser-included offenses and not to category 2 permissive lesser-included offenses
  • explaining that an aggravated form of a basic offense can evince a relationship of degree, with “degree” meaning “a level based on the seriousness of an offense”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Pariente, Wells, Canady, Polston, Anstead, Quince, Lewis

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Cites

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