Vagueness Challenge To Statute

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• Parris v. State
  Fla. 4th DCA· 2023-04-12
• Williams v. United States
  M.D. Fla.· 2020-10-30
  The court held that the petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and other grounds for vacating his sentence were procedurally barred, refuted by the record, or otherwise without merit.
• United States Commodity Futures Trading Comm'n v. Hunter Wise Commodities, LLC
  S.D. Fla.· 2014-02-19
  The court granted summary judgment for the CFTC on Count One, finding that the defendants' retail commodity transactions were not covered by the actual delivery exception and thus violated Section 4(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act. The court also found individual defendants liab
• Kirkland v. State
  647 So. 2d 142· Fla. 1st DCA· 1994-05-05
  Verbal threats made while completely immobilized by restraints constitute insufficient evidence of resisting an officer with violence under Florida Statutes § 843.01 because the defendant lacked the capacity to achieve the threatened result.
• United States v. Ellowood Eugene Bennett
  984 F.2d 597· 4th Cir.· 1993-01-19
  The court affirmed the convictions, holding that RICO's "pattern of racketeering" requirement was not unconstitutionally vague as applied to the appellants' conduct and that sufficient evidence supported Eugene Bennett's conviction for arson resulting in death.
• United States v. McAUSLAND
  979 F.2d 970· 4th Cir.· 1992-08-14
  The court held that the statute 18 U.S.C. § 641 was not unconstitutionally vague as applied to the defendants' conduct, and that publicity surrounding a related guilty plea did not warrant a mistrial.
• Hatter v. Iowa Men's Reformatory
  932 F.2d 701· 8th Cir.· 1991-05-01
  The court held that the Iowa kidnapping statute was not unconstitutionally vague as applied, the kidnapping was not incidental to the sexual abuse, the confession was admissible for impeachment, and the life sentence was not disproportionate.
• Williams v. State
  540 So. 2d 229· Fla. 5th DCA· 1989-03-23
  The court held that a writ of certiorari should not be granted to review a circuit court's reversal of a dismissal of criminal charges based on a statute's alleged unconstitutionality, as this would unduly expand interlocutory appellate review.
• Speck v. Auger
  558 F.2d 394· 8th Cir.· 1977-06-09
  The court held that the Iowa juvenile transfer statute, as interpreted by the Iowa Supreme Court, is not unconstitutionally vague because it allows for consideration of specific factors and provides flexibility without permitting arbitrary decisions.