Legal Opinion

Martinez v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided October 5, 1982No. 80-1742PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

As was anticipated in Finney v. State, 420 So.2d 639 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982) (en banc) (Pearson, J., specially concurring), we must now confront the problem of an ambiguous agreement between the State and the defendant as to dispositiveness.

In the present case, the defendant was charged with manslaughter by operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He filed a series of pretrial motions, which were heard by the trial court during evidentiary hearings conducted on two successive days. The motions which were the subject of these hearings were: (1) a motion to dismiss on…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1979
  3. Gries Inv. Co. v. CheltonDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1980
  4. Finney v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982
  5. Jackson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1980

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Cross v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983
  2. Hall v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982
  3. Martinez v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983
  4. Edward Lamont Hicks v. State of FloridaDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2019
  5. Martinez v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1983

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