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Jones v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Jan 15, 2010
25 So. 3d 681 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

Opinion

No. 1D09-4294.

January 15, 2010.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County. Kenneth L. Williams, Judge.

Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defender, and Steven L. Seliger, Assistant Public Defender, Tallahassee, for Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Jennifer J. Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


The appellant argues that the trial court fundamentally erred by failing to conduct a proper plea colloquy before accepting her plea to three counts of felony petit theft. We note the state's confession of error, but we decline to review this issue on appeal; it was not raised before the trial court, and it does not constitute fundamental error. See Harrell v. State, 894 So.2d 935 (Fla. 2005) (declining to apply fundamental error doctrine to trial court's failure to formally accept a plea where issue of fundamental error not raised before trial court). We note that to the extent the appellant is challenging the voluntariness of her plea, we must affirm because she did not move to withdraw her plea before the trial court. See Griffin v. State, 820 So.2d 906 (Fla. 2002).

AFFIRMED.

WEBSTER, PADOVANO, and ROWE, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Jones v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Jan 15, 2010
25 So. 3d 681 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)
Case details for

Jones v. State

Case Details

Full title:Linda Delores JONES, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Jan 15, 2010

Citations

25 So. 3d 681 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

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