How cited: State v. Fleming · Go Syfert

State v. Fleming (1999)

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Rule Authority · Fla. Dist. Ct. App.
This Court has defined “sophisticated” as “having acquired worldly knowledge or refinement; lacking natural simplicity or naiveté.” Staffney, 826 So. 2d at 512 (quoting State v. Fleming, 751 So. 2d 620, 621 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)); see also Bellamy, 199 So. 3d at 483 (a crime is unsophisticated when the acts constituting the crime are “artless, simple, and not refined”).
Rule Authority · Fla. Dist. Ct. App.
For the purposes of determining whether an offense was committed in an unsophisticated manner, we have explained that unsophisticated is the opposite of sophisticated, which in turn means “having acquired worldly knowledge or refinement; lacking in natural simplicity or naivete.” Staffney v. State, 826 So. 3 2d 509, 512 (Fla. 4th DCA 2002) (quoting State v. Fleming, 751 So. 2d 620, 621 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999)).
green State v. Fureman (2014)
Rule Authority · Fla. Dist. Ct. App.
The facts in State v. Fleming, 751 So.2d 620, 621 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999), and State v. Gilson, 800 So.2d 727 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001), are instructive examples of the artlessness and simplicity of such unsophisticated offenses supporting downward departure sentences.
green State v. Baksh (2000)
Cited · Fla. Dist. Ct. App. · signal: see
See Fleming, 751 So.2d at 621 .