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.

• holding that a trial court cannot consider “the improper factors of a defendant’s assertions of innocence and refusal to admit guilt, the truthfulness of his testimony, or the failure to show remorse” and reversing for resentencing before a different judge
• finding “fundamental error and a denial of due process” in the consideration of certain sentencing factors
• “When a sentencing court expressly considers the improper factors of a defendant’s assertions of innocence and refusal to admit guilt, the truthfulness of his testimony, or the failure to show remorse, fundamental error and a denial of due process occur.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Fernandez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-03-01· cited 16×
• Rodriguez-Aguilar v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-03-09· cited 4×
• Allen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-01-04· cited 4×
• Postaski v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-11-04
• ROSE SZYMANSKI v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-03-07
• RICHARD WILLIAMS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-11-06
• Szymanski v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-03-07

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bracero v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-04-17· cited 40×
• Hannum v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-06-05· cited 40×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-02-05· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-06-10· cited 14×
• Gage v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-18· cited 9×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-09-04· cited 7×
• Diaz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-02-08· cited 4×
• R.M.T. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-02-06· cited 1×