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• Florida v. Harris

  568 u.s. 237, 133 s. ct. 1050 (2013)

  Officer Wheetley pulled over respondent Harris for a routine traffic stop. Observing Harris's nervousness and an open beer can, Wheetley sought consent to search Harris's truck. When Harris refused, Wheetley executed a sniff test with his trained...

• Gustafson v. Florida

  414 u.s. 260, 94 s. ct. 488 (1973)

  Defendant was stopped after his car was observed weaving. When he failed to produce a driver's license, he was arrested for failure to have his vehicle operator's license in his possession. His person was searched and marihuana was found. Defendant...

• Hoyt v. Florida

  368 u.s. 57, 82 s. ct. 159 (1961)

  Defendant killed her husband with a baseball bat in the context of a marital upheaval and was convicted of second-degree murder as a result. On appeal, defendant claimed that her trial before an all-male jury violated rights assured by the Fourteenth...

• Chandler v. Florida

  449 u.s. 560, 101 s. ct. 802 (1981)

  The Florida Supreme Court, following a pilot program for televising judicial proceedings in the State, promulgated a revised Canon 3A (7) of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct. The Canon permits electronic media and still photography coverage of judicial...

• Florida v. Georgia

  141 s. ct. 1175 (2021)

  This case involves a dispute between Florida and Georgia concerning the proper apportionment of interstate waters. Florida brought an original action against Georgia alleging that its upstream neighbor consumes more than its fair share of water from interstate...

• Florida v. Royer

  460 u.s. 491, 103 s. ct. 1319 (1983)

  After purchasing a one-way airline ticket to New York City at Miami International Airport under an assumed name and checking his two suitcases bearing identification tags with the same assumed name, Royer went to the concourse leading to the airline boarding...

• Graham v. Florida

  560 u.s. 48, 130 s. ct. 2011 (2010)

  The defendant was 16 years old when he committed armed burglary with assault and attempted robbery. Though a juvenile, he was charged as an adult and he pleaded guilty to the charges. Later on he was adjudicated guilty after violating conditions of probation...

• Enmund v. Florida

  458 u.s. 782, 102 s. ct. 3368 (1982)

  Earl Enmund and a codefendant, at a jury trial in a Florida court, were convicted of first-degree murder and robbery of two elderly persons at their farmhouse, and were sentenced to death. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed. The court held that, although...

• Brooks v. Florida

  389 u.s. 413, 88 s. ct. 541 (1967)

  Petitioner Bennie Brooks was convicted in a Florida state court for participating in a riot in a Florida prison where he was an inmate. At the trial, his confession of guilt, obtained after his confinement in a barren punishment cell, where he subsisted...

• Graham v. Florida

  560 u.s. 48, 130 s. ct. 2011 (2010)

  Petitioner Graham was 16 when he committed armed burglary and another crime. Under a plea agreement, the Florida trial court sentenced Graham to probation and withheld adjudication of guilt. Subsequently, the trial court found that Graham had violated...

• Florida v. Jimeno

  500 u.s. 248, 111 s. ct. 1801 (1991)

  A police officer pulled over Enio Jimeno for a traffic violation after following him due to information that he may have been involved in a drug deal. Jimeno consented to a search of his car, but nothing more. The officer had informed Jimeno that he suspected...

• Florida v. Riley

  488 u.s. 445, 109 s. ct. 693 (1989)

  The police flew over a greenhouse located on defendant's property in a helicopter at 400 feet, looked into the greenhouse and saw marijuana. The police then obtained a search warrant for the greenhouse and seized the marijuana. The trial court suppressed...

• Florida v. Wells

  495 u.s. 1, 110 s. ct. 1632 (1990)

  Defendant's car was impounded after he was placed under arrest for driving under the influence, and he gave the state trooper permission to open the car's trunk. An inventory search of the car turned up a locked suitcase in the trunk. The police...

• Florida v. Powell

  559 u.s. 50, 130 s. ct. 1195 (2010)

  Kevin D. Powell was convicted in a Florida state court of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Mr. Powell appealed arguing that his Miranda warning was invalid because the written form used by the Tampa police...

• Florida v. J.L.

  529 u.s. 266, 120 s. ct. 1375 (2000)

  The court affirmed a judgment holding that a Terry "stop and frisk" search of respondent based only on an anonymous tip was invalid under U.S. Const. amend. IV. Respondent was searched after an anonymous caller reported to the police that a...

• Florida v. Jardines

  569 u.s. 1, 133 s. ct. 1409 (2013)

  Acting on an unverified tip that marijuana was being grown in defendant's home, the officers used a trained police dog to explore the area around the home in hopes of discovering incriminating evidence. They were gathering information in an area belonging...

• Barclay v. Florida

  463 u.s. 939, 103 s. ct. 3418 (1983)

  Petitioner, Elwood Barclay, and other men, whose apparent purpose was to indiscriminately kill white persons and to start a racial war, killed a white hitchhiker in Florida. Petitioner was convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in a Florida state...

• Williams v. Florida (1970)

  399 u.s. 78, 90 s. ct. 1893 (1970)

  Prior to his trial for robbery in the state of Florida, petitioner filed a motion, which was subsequently denied, for a protective order in which he sought to be excused from the requirements of Fla. R. Crim. P. 1.200. Pursuant to that rule, a defendant...

• Knight v. Florida

  528 u.s. 990, 120 s. ct. 459 (1999)

  Knight was sentenced to death on April 21, 1975. By mid-1976, Knight had invoked all his direct appellate remedies and lost. By mid-1983, he had invoked all state collateral remedies and lost. But Knight had also filed a petition for habeas corpus in...

• Hall v. Florida

  572 u.s. 701, 134 s. ct. 1986 (2014)

  After the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibited the execution of persons with intellectual disability, petitioner Hall, an inmate who had been sentenced to death, asked a Florida state court to vacate...

• Hurst v. Florida

  577 u.s. 92, 136 s. ct. 616 (2016)

  A Florida jury convicted petitioner Timothy Hurst of first-degree murder for killing a co-worker and recommended the death penalty. The court sentenced Hurst to death, but he was granted a new sentencing hearing on appeal. At resentencing, the jury again...

• Sperry v. Florida

  373 u.s. 379, 83 s. ct. 1322 (1963)

  Petitioner was not a lawyer and has never been admitted to the Bar of any State; but, under regulations issued by the Commissioner of Patents with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 31, he has been authorized to practice...

• Murphy v. Florida

  421 u.s. 794, 95 s. ct. 2031 (1975)

  Murphy, a state prisoner convicted in the Dade County, Florida, Criminal Court of two felonies, filed, after an unsuccessful appeal from the judgment of conviction, a petition for habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Southern District...

• Hayes v. Florida

  470 u.s. 811, 105 s. ct. 1643 (1985)

  Defendant Joe Hayes, considered to be a principal suspect in a burglary-rape in Punta Gorda, Florida, was transported by police from his home to the police station for fingerprinting without his consent and without probable cause or prior judicial authorization...

• Florida v. Bostick

  501 u.s. 429, 111 s. ct. 2382 (1991)

  As part of a drug interdiction effort, Broward County Sheriff's Department officers routinely board buses at scheduled stops and ask passengers for permission to search their luggage. Two officers boarded respondent Bostick's bus and, without...