Opinion
No. 98-2924
Opinion filed May 5, 1999 JANUARY TERM 1999
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Paul L. Backman, Judge; L.T. No. 94-10633 CF10A.
Carl J. Mecke of Carl J. Mecke, P.A., Hollywood, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and James J. Carney, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
More than four years after he was sentenced, and as a result of deportation proceedings, appellant filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis, alleging that his plea was involuntary in that he had not been properly advised that his plea could lead to deportation. This court has determined that petitions such as the one filed by appellant are barred by laches where they have been filed more than two years after judgment and sentence have become final. State v. Taylor, 722 So.2d 890 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998); State v. Elise, 24 Fla. L. Weekly D464 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999). Affirmed.
POLEN, FARMER and KLEIN, JJ., concur.