HORACE LEE HOLMES, PETITIONER,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, RESPONDENT

Citator

Cited By

• Hawk v. Seaboard Sys. R.R., Inc., 547 So. 2d 669 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989)
  …bviously to exceed the maximum limit of a reasonable range within which the jury may properly operate. [Citations omitted.] 349 So. 2d 1181, 1184-1185. See, e.g., Walt Disney World Co. v. Goode, 501 So. 2d 622 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986), review dismissed, 520 So. 2d 270 (Fla.1988) (where the court affirmed a $1,000,000 damage award to each parent of a four-year-old child who drowned). As the supreme court acknowledged in Winner v. Sharp, 43 So. 2d 634 (Fla.1949): Those who have not brought a child into the world a…
• Citrus Cnty. v. McQUILLIN, 840 So. 2d 343 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003)
  …discretion may set aside the verdict. Brown v. Estate of Stuckey, 749 So. 2d 490 (Fla.1999); Tobias; Waddell v. Shoney’s, Inc., 664 So. 2d 1134 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995); Walt Disney World Co. v. Goode, 501 So. 2d 622 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986), rev. dismissed, 520 So. 2d 270 (Fla.1988). In refusing to overturn this verdict, the trial judge noted the child had testified at length at trial regarding his grief and pain caused by the loss of his mother’s companionship, how close they were, and how her loss had affected his…
• Carnegie v. State, 564 So. 2d 233 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990)
  …nd the court may consider the applicability of an habitual offender sentence under section 775.084, Florida Statutes, as it existed at the time of appellant’s offense. See Holmes v. State, 502 So. 2d 1302 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987), pet. for rev. dismissed 520 So. 2d 270 (Fla.1988). The sentencing guidelines score-sheet which the court utilized included a computation for legal constraint at the time of the offense. It has been established that the constraint from which an offender escapes should not be separately…