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Reid v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Sep 29, 1999
745 So. 2d 363 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

Summary

affirming the denial of an insufficiently pled postconviction motion for relief without prejudice to appellant's right to refile a motion that complies with pleading requirements

Summary of this case from Perez v. Moore

Opinion

No. 99-1969.

Opinion filed September 29, 1999.

Appeal of order denying rule 3.850 motion from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; William P. Dimitrouleas and James I. Cohn, Judges; L.T. No. 95-13003 CF.

Donovan Reid, South Bay, pro se.

No appearance required for appellee.


We affirm the denial of postconviction relief on the ground that appellant's rehearing motion was, in reality, an amended 3.850 motion filed after the court had already denied the initial motion. As such, the motion was successive. See Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850(f); Shaw v. State, 654 So.2d 608, 609 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995). Moreover, while the Brady claim was allegedly based on newly discovered evidence, the claim was legally insufficient in that it failed to allege that the exculpatory evidence was "unknown to the movant or the movant's attorney and could not have been ascertained by the exercise of due diligence." Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850(b)(1); see also Jones v. State, 591 So.2d 911 (Fla. 1991) (defining "newly discovered evidence" for purposes of Rule 3.850). This affirmance is without prejudice to appellant's right to file, within 30 days of the issuance of the mandate, a motion that complies with the pleading requirements of Rule 3.850 with respect to claims of newly discovered evidence. See Jones v. State, 708 So.2d 1045 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998) (affirming denial of 3.850 motion as legally insufficient under Rule 3.850(c), but without prejudice to appellant refiling a motion that complies with the requirements of the rule).

Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963).

DELL, GUNTHER and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Reid v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Sep 29, 1999
745 So. 2d 363 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

affirming the denial of an insufficiently pled postconviction motion for relief without prejudice to appellant's right to refile a motion that complies with pleading requirements

Summary of this case from Perez v. Moore
Case details for

Reid v. State

Case Details

Full title:DONOVAN A. REID, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Sep 29, 1999

Citations

745 So. 2d 363 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

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