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Rodriguez v. State

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Declined by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Citation
753 So. 2d 29
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
59 of 59
Citing cases (total)
59
Treatment dates
2006
Declined by some courts
At least one reviewed court has declined to follow this case. No reviewed court has overruled it. One court declined to follow Rodriguez v. State on the right to confront witnesses during capital sentencing; that treatment is listed below. All 59 flagged citations have been read.
More on how this was screened

Other courts applied Rodriguez’s rules or described its earlier changes to Florida decisions.

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.

59 later cases cite Rodriguez v. State; 59 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

Declined to follow

  • The Arizona Supreme Court rejected Rodriguez's view that the Confrontation Clause applies throughout a capital trial, holding that it does not apply to evidence rebutting mitigation at sentencing.

    State v. McGill · Arizona Supreme Court · filed

    Thus, Arizona has long held that the Confrontation Clause does not apply to rebuttal testimony at a sentencing hearing ... But see, e.g., Rodriguez v. State, 753 So.2d 29, 43 (Fla.2000) ("We start with the uncontroverted proposition that the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation applies to all three phases of the capital trial.”);
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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