AMAZON

v.

FLORIDA

Citator

Cited By (62 total)

• State v. Thewell Eugene Hamilton, 574 So. 2d 124 (Fla. 1991)
  …ing harmless error. We hasten to note, however, that the evidentiary hearing contemplated by Paz and Howard need not be conducted when an unreasonable allegation of juror misconduct is made. In Amazon v. State, 487 So. 2d 8, 11 (Fla.), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 914, 107 S.Ct. 314, 93 L.Ed.2d 288 (1986), we stated that the defendant must at least allege facts establishing a prima facie argument for prejudice. The Amazon Court factually was confronting some allegations of juror misconduct that had almost no pote…
• Mac Ray Wright v. State, 586 So. 2d 1024 (Fla. 1991)
  …ctor supporting a jury’s life recommendation. See, e.g., Stevens v. State, 552 So. 2d 1082, 1086 (Fla.1989); Pentecost v. State, 545 So. 2d 861, 863 (Fla.1989); see also Amazon v. State, 487 So. 2d 8, 13 (Fla.) (history of drug abuse), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 914, 107 S.Ct. 314, 93 L.Ed.2d 288 (1986); Norris v. State, 429 So. 2d 688, 690 (Fla.1983) (same). Wright had been drinking heavily just prior to the murder, and a psychiatrist testified that Wright was under the influence of extreme mental and emotiona…
• Mahn v. State, 714 So. 2d 391 (Fla. 1998)
  …ical and mental abuse of her son. Significantly, as with Mahn’s drug and alcohol abuse, the State did not controvert Mahn’s long history of physical and mental abuse at home. Our prior decision in Amazon v. State, 487 So. 2d 8 (Fla.), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 914, 107 S.Ct. 314, 93 L.Ed.2d 288 (1986), is closely analogous to this case, if not more egregious on its facts. In Amazon, the nineteen-year-old defendant broke into his next door neighbor’s house, raped the mother, and then eventually murdered both t…