Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the court’s oral pronouncement of a sentence controls over an inconsistent written sentencing document
• holding that under rule 3.800(a) the burden is on the defendant to demonstrate an entitlement to relief on the face of the record and without an evidentiary hearing
• concluding “that a discrepancy between oral and written sentence is cognizable in a rule 3.800(a) proceeding”
• holding a claim alleging a discrepancy between an oral and written sentence that can be resolved by the record is cognizable at any time under rule 3.800(a)
• explaining that “a court’s oral pronouncement of a sentence controls over the written sentencing document,” but that “no court has the authority” to enter a “written sentence that conflicts with the oral pronouncement”
• reversing a trial court denial of a motion to correct illegal sentence based upon the court clerk’s minutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-29· cited 203×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-04-21· cited 163×
• William J. Plott v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-09-18· cited 48×
• State v. Akins
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-05-26· cited 46×
• Nielson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-06-06· cited 23×
• Vaughn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-07-07· cited 21×
• State v. McMahon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-04-05· cited 20×
• Blocker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-11-16· cited 16×
• Walden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-04-10· cited 13×
• Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-03-31· cited 12×
• Beard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-02-05· cited 11×
• Cox v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-31· cited 11×
• Santana v. Henry
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-05-29· cited 10×
• Donton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-01-08· cited 10×
• Terry P. Powell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-07-07· cited 9×
• Durant v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-10-09· cited 9×
• Levandoski v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-04-19· cited 9×
• Acosta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-11-05· cited 9×
• Pressly v. Tadlock
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-12-05· cited 8×
• Michael Levandoski v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-06-07· cited 7×

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Holly v. Auld
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-05-03· cited 735×
• State v. Mancino
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 282×
• State v. Callaway
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 219×
• Ashley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 189×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-24· cited 163×
• Justice v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-05-23· cited 73×
• State v. Matthews
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-12-23· cited 47×
• Hopping v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-02-19· cited 45×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-02· cited 32×
• Campbell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-09-09· cited 21×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-21· cited 13×
• Berthiaume v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-30· cited 11×
• Rinderer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-10-22· cited 11×
• Renaud v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 9×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-03-02· cited 8×
• Watts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-07-18· cited 7×
• Polite v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-06-27· cited 6×
• Cote v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-01-29· cited 5×
• Byers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-11-29· cited 5×
• Ferguson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-17· cited 5×