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affirming the dismissal of Hales' petition for writ of habeas corpus as the Miami-Dade Circuit Court lacked jurisdiction to review the legality of Hales' conviction entered in another county, without prejudice to allow Hales to file an appropriate motion in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit
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No. 3D07-151.
May 23, 2007.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Dennis J. Murphy, Judge.
Gordon Hales, in proper person.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Michael C. Greenberg, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
Before WELLS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.
The dismissal of appellant's Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus is affirmed without prejudice to his filing an appropriate motion in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit. See Calloway v. State, 699 So.2d 849, 850 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997) (observing that a circuit court has no jurisdiction to review the legality of a conviction in another circuit); Leichtman v. Singletary, 674 So.2d 889, 891 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996).