Wright v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that section 893.101 “does not require the defendant to prove or disprove knowledge”
• explaining that section 893.101 “does not require the defendant to prove or disprove knowledge”
• “An affirmative defense does not concern itself with the elements of the offense at all; it concedes them” and “asserts a good excuse or reason.”
• “The statute does two things: it makes possession of a controlled substance a general intent crime ... and, second, it allows a defendant to assert lack of knowledge as an affirmative defense.”
• the legislature has broad authority to determine intent requirements in defining crimes and courts must defer to the legislative determination on such matters as long as there is a rational basis for the legislative action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Adkins
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-07-12· cited 570×
• Maestas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-11-30· cited 257×
• Shelton v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  M.D. Florida· 2011-07-27· cited 77×
• State v. Washington
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-27· cited 16×
• Harris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-06-27· cited 12×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-05-17· cited 12×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-07-13· cited 9×
• Ramirez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-02-04· cited 7×
• Lamore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-05-30· cited 7×
• Quick v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-11-03· cited 6×
• Sloss v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-19· cited 5×
• Miller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-05-26· cited 5×
• Tolbert v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-04-26· cited 3×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-08-31· cited 2×
• Mitchell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-10-05· cited 2×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-09-28
• Monts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-03-08
• Adams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-05-10
• Branch v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-03-14

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sanford v. Rubin
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1970-07-01· cited 197×
• Chicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-24· cited 155×
• Trushin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-11-04· cited 96×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-03· cited 59×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1909-06-15· cited 47×
• State v. Cohen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-27· cited 31×
• Brazill v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-14· cited 16×
• Alexander v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-05-16· cited 14×
• Norman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-08-28· cited 13×
• Fitzgerald v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-11-04· cited 10×
• White v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-04-12· cited 9×
• Carr v. Crosby Builders Supply Company, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-08-29· cited 8×
• Reese v. STATE, DEPT. OF TRANSP.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-17· cited 3×
• State v. Schuyler
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-04-06· cited 1×