From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

Cassady v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District
Dec 20, 1996
683 So. 2d 1194 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)

Opinion

No. 96-3114.

December 20, 1996.

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County; Jay Paul Cohen, Judge.

Terry Cassady, Orlando, pro se.

No Appearance for Appellee.


We have for review the trial court's order summarily denying Terry Cassady's motion to correct illegal sentence, pursuant to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). The trial court properly denied the motion as successive. Accordingly, we affirm.

In his rule 3.800 motion, Mr. Cassady raised the issues which had previously been denied in an earlier rule 3.850 or post-conviction relief. While a truly illegal sentence may be addressed at anytime, a defendant is not entitled to successive review of a specific issue which has already been decided against him in earlier post-conviction proceedings even if the question pertains to the legality of his sentence. Raley v. State, 675 So.2d 170, 173-74 (Fla. 5th DCA 1996), dismissed, 678 So.2d 1287 (Fla. 1996).

This appeal amounts to Mr. Cassady's ninth action in this court, not including motions for rehearing. He appears to have exhausted his post-conviction remedies and has certainly exhausted us in doing so. In order to conserve our resources, we order that Mr. Cassady is prohibited from filing any further pro se pleadings with this court concerning his 1991 conviction and sentence for four counts of attempted sexual battery. See Isley v. State, 652 So.2d 409 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995). Additionally, we remind Mr. Cassady that section 944.28(2), Florida Statutes (Supp. 1996), provides that "[a]ll or any part of the gain-time earned by a prisoner according to the provisions of law is subject to forfeiture if such prisoner . . . is found by a court to have brought a frivolous suit, action, claim, proceeding, or appeal in any court. . . ."

AFFIRMED.

PETERSON, C.J., and GOSHORN, J., concur.


Summaries of

Cassady v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District
Dec 20, 1996
683 So. 2d 1194 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)
Case details for

Cassady v. State

Case Details

Full title:TERRY CASSADY, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District

Date published: Dec 20, 1996

Citations

683 So. 2d 1194 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1996)

Citing Cases

Witherspoon v. State

The second challenge as well as this one are barred because they are successive and improper, and they seek…

Strong v. State

Appellant responded to the circuit court's order, and the circuit court found that Appellant failed to show…