CHARLES HENRY WATKINS, APPELLANT,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (27 total)

• State v. Hunter, 586 So. 2d 319 (Fla. 1991)
  …McDONALD, Justice. We review Hunter v. State, 531 So. 2d 239 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988), in which the district court certified two questions as being of great public importance. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(4), Florida Constitution, and quash Hunter. The chief prosecution witness in the…

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• Donnie Murrell v. State, 595 So. 2d 1049 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992)
  …serving the minimum mandatory term of imprisonment prescribed by this section.”). As Judge Anstead, writing for the court, observed, “Diamond was actually out of jail illegally at the time he induced Conk-lin to traffic in cocaine.” Hunter v. State, 531 So. 2d 239, 243 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988). Thus, we have allowed the abuse of “substantial assistance” to infect the courts themselves. It would be neither logical nor constitutional for the legislature to spend our financial resources to create crime. A society th…
• Segarra v. State, 559 So. 2d 698 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990)
  …de below under Cruz v. State, 465 So. 2d 516 (Fla.), cert. denied, 473 U.S. 905, 105 S.Ct. 3527, 87 L.Ed.2d 652 (1985); nor was any showing made below of a due process violation under State v. Glosson, 462 So. 2d 1082 (Fla.1985), or Hunter v. State, 531 So. 2d 239 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988). Second, the trial court did not, as urged, commit reversible error in denying defendant’s motion to suppress; clearly, the confidential informant had not been engaged by the state, and therefore was not an agent of the state, at…

Authorities Cited

• Shull v. Dugger, 515 So. 2d 748 (Fla. 1987)
• Marianela Caceres v. Milton, 498 So. 2d 576 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986)
• Watkins v. State, 498 So. 2d 576 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986)