Opinion
No. 2D99-4368.
Opinion filed February 28, 2001.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; W. Douglas Baird, Judge.
Reversed and Remanded with directions.
Chantay Clark, Florida City, pro se.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sonya Roebuck Horbelt, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.
The trial court erred in denying Chantay Clark's motion for rehearing of the order denying her petition for writ of habeas corpus. In her motion for rehearing, Clark correctly asserted that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to hear her petition because she filed it in the wrong circuit. A petition for writ of habeas corpus must be filed in the circuit in which the petitioner is detained. § 79.09, Fla. Stat. (1997); Savage v. State, 662 So.2d 750 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995).
Accordingly, we reverse and remand with directions that the trial court vacate its order denying Clark's petition and transfer the petition to the proper circuit.
Fulmer, A.C.J., and Davis, J., Concur.