SAMUEL T. SLOAN, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (25 total)

• Schmitt v. State, 590 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 1991)
  …ence of statutes and ordinances purporting to criminalize protected expression operates as a deterrent to the exercise of the rights of free expression, and deters most effectively the prudent, the cautious and the circumspect. ... State v. Keaton, 371 So. 2d 86, 91-92 (Fla.1979) (quoting Spears v. State, 337 So. 2d 977, 980 (Fla.1976)). The deleterious result of overbroad statutes often is described as a “chilling effect.” Ferber, 458 U.S. at 772 n. 27, 102 S.Ct. at 3362 n. 27; see Broadrick v. Oklahoma,…
• In re T.W., 551 So. 2d 1186 (Fla. 1989)
  …3); Department of Ins. v. Southeast Volusia Hosp. Dist., 438 So. 2d 815 (Fla.1983), appeal dismissed, 466 U.S. 901, 104 S.Ct. 1673, 80 L.Ed.2d 149 (1984); Miami Dolphins, Ltd. v. Metropolitan Dade County, 394 So. 2d 981 (Fla. 1981); State v. Keaton, 371 So. 2d 86 (Fla. 1979); State v. Aiuppa, 298 So. 2d 391 (Fla. 1974). Applying this principle of statutory interpretation, the Court would not be changing the intent of the legislature in this case because “[t]he legislature will be presumed to have intended a…
• Ferman Carlos Espindola v. State, 855 So. 2d 1281 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003)
  …81-85 (1995). Without this judicial amendment to the statute it would have been unconstitutional. Id. at 421-22. We however, cannot judicially amend section 775.21, as that province in Florida is left solely to the legislature. See State v. Keaton, 371 So. 2d 86, 89 (Fla.1979) (courts may not vary the intent of the legislature with respect to the meaning of a statute, in order to render it constitutional). . In Millcs the Second District declined to certify conflict with our original opinion because it was…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Allen, 362 So. 2d 10 (Fla. 1978)