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.

• holding that trial counsel was ineffective in having the defendant testify he had five prior felony convictions when he had no prior felony convictions
• granting post-conviction relief where counsel elicited testimony that defendant was previously convicted of five crimes when convictions were only misdemeanors
• remanding for new trial when defense counsel elicited five otherwise inadmissible misdemeanor convictions in direct examination
• granting postconviction relief when defense counsel elicited testimony that defendant had been previously convicted of five crimes when the convictions were only misdemeanors that did not involve dishonesty or false statement and thus were inadmissible
• finding prejudice where jury heard number of defendant’s inadmissible misdemeanor convictions because of “extremely prejudicial nature of this type of evidence” and “strong and emphatic emphasis placed upon it by the state attorney in attacking the defendant’s credibility in final argument”
• counsel’s performance was rendered ineffective by introducing harmful and inadmissible evidence concerning defendant’s prior convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-01-25· cited 40×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-10-06· cited 13×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-11-03· cited 6×
• Ridenour v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-09· cited 4×
• Harris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-04-03· cited 3×
• Halsell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-04-10· cited 2×
• Lawhorne v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-12-03· cited 1×
• Miranda v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-07-03
• State v. Klaver
  Florida Circuit Courts· 1987-09-10
• Walker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-09-03
• Gonzalez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-11-29
• Sanders v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-15
• Caleb Fernandez v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-12-23

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 404×
• State v. Vazquez
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-09-14· cited 72×
• Cummings v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-14· cited 37×
• State v. Meneses
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-08· cited 34×
• Vazquez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-08-04· cited 20×
• Malcolm v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-06-29· cited 19×
• Hendrick v. Strazzulla
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-11-22· cited 16×
• Chapman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-12-01· cited 8×
• Roman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-27· cited 1×