Watson 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 the initial granting of motion for a judgment of acquittal by the trial judge triggered double jeopardy where there was no indication in the record that the matter was still under consideration when he made such ruling
• finding that “the ruling of the trial judge made the day before, without any indication that the matter was still under consideration, had progressed toward finality beyond the point that would permit its retraction or correction”
• “Once a defendant obtains an acquittal after jeopardy attaches ... the double jeopardy clause bars retrial.”
• “[A]t least until the hearing has come to - 49 - an end, the trial judge may reverse himself on a ruling on a motion for judgment of acquittal.”
• jeopardy attaches once defendant obtains an acquittal even if the acquittal is erroneously obtained
• not final until the motion hearing is concluded

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2005-02-22· cited 249×
• Francis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-06-09· cited 36×
• State v. C.C.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-03-24· cited 36×
• People v. Vincent
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1997-07-15· cited 27×
• State v. Harris
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-16· cited 15×
• State v. Kramer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-01-30· cited 12×
• Boone v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-01-09· cited 9×
• Albert Herman Freer v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Department of Corrections, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, State of Florida
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-07-09· cited 7×
• Ramos v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-06-12· cited 6×
• Carswell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-11-18· cited 4×
• Burton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-03-25· cited 4×
• Caldwell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-12-28· cited 4×
• State v. Foster
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-28· cited 2×
• L.F. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-11-19· cited 2×
• Watson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-10-21· cited 1×
• LF v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-11-19
• State v. CC
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-27
• Curry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-06-14
• State Of Iowa Vs. John Joseph Kramer
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2009-01-30
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-02-28

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Scott
  Supreme Court· 1978-10-02· cited 1,668×
• Farber v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-01-12· cited 30×
• State v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-04-22· cited 22×
• Kelly v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-06-23· cited 6×