FELTON AVANT, APPELLANT,

v.

THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (22 total)

• Hamblen v. State, 527 So. 2d 800 (Fla. 1988)
  …government should never intrude. Instead, in cases ranging from those involving a refusal of continued medical treatment to euthanasia, we have carefully weighed and balanced competing interests. Satz v. Perlmutter, 379 So. 2d 359 (Fla.1980), aff’g 362 So. 2d 160 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978). See also Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz, 373 Mass. 728, 743 n. 11, 370 N.E. 2d 417, 426 n. 11 (1977). See generally Annas, Reconciling Quinlan and Saikewicz; Decision Making for the Terminally III Incomp…
• In re Guardianship OF Estelle M. Browning. State of Fla. v. Herbert, 568 So. 2d 4 (Fla. 1990)
  …eligious freedom and to lead her private life according to her own conscience.” Wons v. Public Health Trust, 500 So. 2d 679, 687 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987), approved, 541 So. 2d 96 (Fla.1989). Also, in Satz v. Perlmutter, 379 So. 2d 359 (Fla.1980), adopting 362 So. 2d 160 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978), we held that a competent, seventy-three-year-old patient who was suffering from terminal, incurable amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, was entitled to remove a mechanical respirator, without which death would occur within a short ti…

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• Satz v. Abe Perlmutter, 379 So. 2d 359 (Fla. 1980)
  …SUNDBERG, Judge. This case is before us on petition for writ of certiorari to review a decision of the District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, reported at 362 So. 2d 160. Because the decision of the district court directly affects the rights and duties of a class of constitutional officers — state attorneys — we have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(3), Florida Constitution. See Spradley v. State, 29…