Legal Opinion

Tibbs v. State

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided April 9, 1981No. 56918PublishedCited by 401 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

397 So.2d 1120 (1981)

Delbert Lee TIBBS, Petitioner,

v.

STATE of Florida, Respondent.

No. 56918.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 9, 1981.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 1981.

Louis R. Beller, Miami Beach, and Jerry Paul, Durham, N.C., for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Eula Tuttle Mason and Charles Corces, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Tampa, for respondent.

2Per curiam

This case brings us the responsibility to delineate the occasions for retrial and discharge, respectively, of criminal defendants whose convictions have been reversed by Florida appellate courts. It arises from the decision of the Second District Court of…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part · Sundberg; Concurring in part, dissenting in part · England; Dissent.

3Cases cited54 opinions

  1. Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  3. United States v. ScottSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  4. United States v. DiFrancescoSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  5. United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977

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4Cited by401 opinions

  1. Tibbs v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. Pagan v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2002
  3. Banks v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1999
  4. Terry v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1996
  5. F.B. v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 2003

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