Supreme Court of Florida - January 2002 Opinion Summaries

WRIGHT v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
An accomplice to masked offenses cannot have a sentence enhanced under section 775.0845 without evidence establishing that the defendant personally...

TERRY v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A court may impose incarceration under the sentencing guidelines followed by probation as an habitual offender pursuant to a valid plea agreement, as...

WIKE v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure
The first day of jury selection, where only the general qualification of jurors took place, was not a critical phase where defendant-s presence was...

JONES v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Florida Statutes Section 948.01(13), which provides for the sanction of drug offender probation, is an alternative sentencing scheme independent of...

KNIGHT v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Florida Statutes Section 775.082(8)(a)2.a., which mandates a life sentence for prison releasee reoffenders who commit "a felony punishable by life,"...

CRULLER v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure
Where clear legislative intent is to punish the act of taking a car separately from the taking of any other property during a robbery, the Double...

STATE OF FLORIDA v. TRAVIS

Criminal Law & Procedure
Under Florida Statutes 893.135(1)(c)1, the minimum weight requirement for criminal culpability for Schedule II drug possession is the combined weight...

SCOTT v. STATE OF FLORIDA

Criminal Law & Procedure
For crime of drug possession, government must show defendant knew the substance he possessed was illegal and mere possession of an illegal substance...

WOODSIDE VILL. CONDO. ASS'N, INC. v. JAHREN

Property Law & Real Estate
Condominium by-law amendments that limit owners' ability to lease their units may apply to owners who acquired their units before the amendments were...