FRANKLIN

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By (34 total)

• Barber v. State, 413 So. 2d 482 (Fla. 2d DCA 1982)
  …esults.2 However, certain decisions of the federal courts are more significant because they deal directly with what constitutes a prior conviction for purposes of impeachment. In United States v. Klein, 560 F. 2d 1236 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1073, 98 S.Ct. 1259, 55 L.Ed.2d 777 (1978), the court considered whether it was proper to impeach the defendant with evidence of a jury verdict of guilt which had been returned against him in another case earlier on the same day though no adjudication ha…
• Adler v. State, 382 So. 2d 1298 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980)
  …ce. Hill v. State, 110 So. 2d 464 (Fla. 2d DCA 1959). A motion to withdraw a plea of guilty prior to imposition of sentence should be liberally construed in favor of the defendant. United States v. Klein, 560 F. 2d 1236 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied 434 U.S. 1073, 98 S.Ct. 1259, 55 L.Ed.2d 777 (1978). Withdrawal of a guilty plea is not a matter of right but of discretion and will not be set aside absent a showing of abuse. Meaton v. United States, 328 F. 2d 379 (5th Cir. 1964), cert. denied 380 U.S. 916, 85…
• United States v. Martino, 648 F.2d 367 (5th Cir. 1981)
  …321 F. 2d 843, 848 (5th Cir. 1963), that “a conspiracy may be proved even though the link connecting many of the activities of the conspirators is a Government informer.” See also United States v. Klein, 560 F. 2d 1236 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1073, 98 S.Ct. 1259, 55 L.Ed.2d 777 (1978). Young argues that justice demands that his convictions on the mail fraud counts, Counts 34 and 35, be reversed because there was no evidence to show that he asked, requested or insisted that the insurance agen…