SINCLAIR

v.

LOUISIANA

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• State v. Dixon, 283 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 1973)
  …), F.S.1971. Sentences imposed under Florida’s death penalty statute were reversed in Anderson v. Florida, 408 U.S. 938, 92 S.Ct. 2868, 33 L.Ed.2d 758 (1972); Thomas v. Florida, 408 U.S. 935, 92 S.Ct. 2855, 33 L.Ed.2d 750 (1972); Johnson v. Florida, 408 U.S. 939, 92 S.Ct. 2875, 33 L.Ed.2d 762 (1972); Boykin v. Florida, 408 U.S. 940, 92 S.Ct. 2876, 33 L.Ed.2d 763 (1972); Brown v. Florida, 408 U.S. 938, 92 S.Ct. 2870, 33 L.Ed.2d 759 (1972); Paramore v. Florida, 408 U.S. 935, 92 S.Ct. 2857, 33 L.Ed.2d 751 (197…

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• Kettell v. State, 950 So. 2d 505 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007)
  …, 493 So. 2d 451, 452 (Fla.1986). This is not a case where “it appears from the whole record that the jury could not have been misled by the instructions.” Johnson v. State, 252 So. 2d 361, 364 (Fla.1971), judgment vacated in part on other grounds, 408 U.S. 939, 92 S.Ct. 2875, 33 L.Ed.2d 762 (1972). The problem with the instructions is not that a portion of the instructions is unclear when viewed in isolation from the remainder of the instructions but clear when viewed in context. On the contrary, when the…

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• Mayque Gomez Marin v. State (Fla. 3d DCA 2026)
  …ed the jury on the first count—second degree murder. The law requires jury instructions to be considered as a whole rather than in pieces. See generally Johnson v. State, 252 So. 2d 361, 364 (Fla. 1971), vacated in part sub nom., Johnson v. Florida, 408 U.S. 939 (1972) (“It is basic in our criminal law that instructions must be considered in relation to each other and all together and not in isolation. Instructions in a capital homicide case must give the jury a full, fair, complete and correct statement of…