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Dade County v. Thompson (1941)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: Feb. 04, 1941 Citations: 146 Fla. 66, 200 So. 212

Appellees as complainants filed their bill of complaint seeking to cancel and remove all restrictions on the lots in a subdivision known as Tatum's Ocean Beach Park, located in Dade County, fronting on the Atlantic Ocean north of Miami, all persons having an interest in any of the lots being named as defendants. Appellants and several other defendants answered the bill of complaint resisting the removal. Decrees pro confesso were taken against the owners of eleven lots and some of the owners file..

Boley v. Pensacola Hardware Co. (1933)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: Nov. 28, 1933 Citations: 113 Fla. 69, 151 So. 291

This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court upon the transcript of the record of the decree herein, and briefs and argument of counsel for *Page 70 the respective parties, and the record having been seen and inspected, and the Court being now advised of its judgment to be given in the premises, it seems to the Court that there is no error in the said decree; it is, therefore, considered, ordered and adjudged by the Court that the said decree of the Circuit Court be, and the same is h..

No. 1981. City of Sarasota v. State (1936)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: Jul. 16, 1936 Citations: 126 Fla. 405, 168 So. 417

R.W. Evans brought mandamus against the City of Sarasota to require the respondent to amend its budget for the fiscal year beginning November 1, 1934, so as to provide in said budget a sum sufficient to pay relator the amount due him on certain of the city's bonds of which relator was the holder and to levy a special tax therefor. The Court, after considering a motion for a peremptory writ, ordered that the peremptory writ issue on condition that an amendment be made to the alternative writ to ma..

Snow v. Nowlin (1936)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: Aug. 06, 1936 Citations: 125 Fla. 166, 169 So. 598

The appeal brings for review interlocutory orders in a suit to foreclose a chattel mortgage. The entry of appeal confines the same so that it is from "the interlocutory decree entered on the 28th day of January, 1936, and from the interlocutory decree entered on the 29th day of January, 1936." The decree filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court on the 29th day of January, 1936, denies the motion of the complainant to dismiss the counterclaim. The decree or order filed in the office o..

SC14-193 Angelo Atwell v. State of Florida (2016)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: May 26, 2016

Supreme Court of Florida _ No. SC14-193 _ ANGELO ATWELL, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [May 26, 2016] PARIENTE, J. Angelo Atwell was sixteen years old when, in August 1990, he committed armed robbery and first-degree murder. Under the statute then in effect, Atwell was sentenced for the first-degree murder to a mandatory term of life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole after twenty-five years, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for th..

SC14-842 Jermaine C. Jackson v. State of Florida (2016)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: May 05, 2016

Supreme Court of Florida _ No. SC14-842 _ JERMAINE C. JACKSON, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [May 5, 2016] QUINCE, J. This case is before the Court for review of the decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Jackson v. State, 137 So. 3d 470 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014). Because the district court expressly declared a state statute valid, this Court has jurisdiction to review the decision. See art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const. Appellant, Jermaine Jackson, was convicted of one count of..

SC15-348 State of Florida v. Donna Horwitz (2016)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: May 05, 2016

Supreme Court of Florida _ No. SC15-348 _ STATE OF FLORIDA, Petitioner, vs. DONNA HORWITZ, Respondent. [May 5, 2016] PARIENTE, J. The issue before the Court is whether, under article I, section 9 of the Florida Constitution and Florida evidentiary law, the State is precluded from using a defendant’s pre-arrest, pre-Miranda1 silence as substantive evidence of guilt when the defendant does not testify at trial. In Horwitz v. State, No. 4D13-336, 2015 WL 671136 (Fla. 4th DCA Feb. 18, 2015), the Four..

SC14-274 and SC14-1952 Jean Claude Noel v. State of Florida and Jean Claude Noel v. State of Florida (2016)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: Apr. 21, 2016

Supreme Court of Florida _ No. SC14-274 _ JEAN CLAUDE NOEL, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. _ No. SC14-1952 _ JEAN CLAUDE NOEL, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [April 21, 2016] PER CURIAM. This case is before the Court for review of the en banc decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Noel v. State, 127 So. 3d 769 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013) (en banc), which certified that its decision is in direct conflict with the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in ..

SC13-1080 Ronald Williams v. State of Florida (2016)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: Mar. 03, 2016

Supreme Court of Florida _ No. SC13-1080 _ RONALD WILLIAMS, Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [March 3, 2016] PERRY, J. This case is before the Court for review of the Fourth District Court of Appeal’s decision in Williams v. State, 125 So. 3d 879 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013). In its decision, the district court ruled upon the following question, which the court certified to be of great public importance: Does section 775.087(2)(d)’s statement that “The court shall impose any term of imprisonm..

SC14-746 Sidney Norvil, Jr. v. State of Florida (2016)

Supreme Court of Florida Filed: Apr. 28, 2016

Supreme Court of Florida _ No. SC14-746 _ SIDNEY NORVIL, Jr., Petitioner, vs. STATE OF FLORIDA, Respondent. [April 28, 2016] PERRY, J. Sidney Norvil, Jr., seeks review of the decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Norvil v. State, 162 So. 3d 3 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014), on the ground that it expressly and directly conflicts with Yisrael v. State, 65 So. 3d 1177 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011), Mirutil v. State, 30 So. 3d 588 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010), and Gray v. State, 964 So. 2d 884 (Fla. 2d DCA 2007), on t..

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