Wimberly v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding argument improper because “it injected ‘facts’ not contained in the evidence” and was “completely unsupported by any evidence at trial”
• defendant’s reference to homicide victim with a racial epithet was relevant to premeditation
• “Improper comments rise to the level of fundamental error only where the error reaches down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-30· cited 25×
• Guerrero v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-03-13· cited 5×
• Gordon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-29
• Rodrigues Elijah Wright v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-09-02
• RUBY LEE MCGRIFFCOLEBROOK v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2021-05-26
• Duckens Oxyde v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-05-14

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 115×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-06· cited 106×
• Dennis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-31· cited 63×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-28· cited 55×
• Gillion v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-10· cited 41×
• Beneby v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-01-04· cited 33×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 22×
• Wheeler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-02· cited 18×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-02-19· cited 12×
• Clinton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-11-14· cited 7×
• Stephenson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-03· cited 6×
• Rich v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-10-07· cited 3×