STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,

v.

REUBEN REBOLLAR, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Legette v. State, 718 So. 2d 878 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998)
  …form in 1984. See Florida Bar re Amendment to the Rules—Criminal Procedure, 462 So. 2d 386, 388 (Fla.1984). One reason for the rule change was to “minimize the potential for jury sympathy based on the defendant’s possible sentence.” Limose v. State, 656 So. 2d 947, 949 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995). A second reason for the amendment was to harness the jury’s exercise of its pardon power. The policy behind allowing a jury to convict of lesser included offenses is to permit the jury to exercise its “pardon” power by acq…
• Knight v. State, 668 So. 2d 596 (Fla. 1996)
  …er does not command the trial court to instruct the jury on minimum mandatory sentences. Rather, Weller only requires the trial court to instruct the jury to make a specific determination of the amount of contraband involved. Accord Limose v. State, 656 So. 2d 947 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995) (finding that Weller only required a court to give the lesser included instructions which would advise the jury of the importance of determining the specific amount of cocaine involved in the setting of the minimum penalty; howev…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Lewis, 656 So. 2d 1248 (Fla. 1994)
• Salnave v. Pub. Health Tr. OF Dade Cnty., 624 So. 2d 282 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993)
• Kern Ron Davis v. State, 624 So. 2d 282 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993)