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Campbell v. State

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Citation
571 So. 2d 415
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
33 of 33
Citing cases (total)
33
Treatment dates
2000
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Campbell v. State has been overruled in part: all 33 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. The Florida Supreme Court abandoned Campbell's rule that a proven mitigating factor cannot receive zero weight.
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Later decisions continued to apply Campbell's requirement that a capital sentencing order evaluate proposed mitigation in writing; their references to receding from Campbell report the earlier decision in Trease v. State.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

33 later cases cite Campbell v. State; 33 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Florida Supreme Court receded from Campbell's prohibition on assigning no weight to a mitigating factor that the evidence supports.

    Trease v. State · Supreme Court of Florida · filed

    We hereby recede from our opinion in Campbell to the extent it disallows trial courts from according no weight to a mitigating factor and recognize that there are circumstances where a mitigating circumstance may be found to be supported by the record, but given no weight.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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