Perkins v. State

Full title: LARRY PERKINS, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Feb 19, 2003

839 So. 2d 797 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2003)

839 So. 2d 797

Opinion

Case No. 4D02-4462

Opinion filed February 19, 2003

Appeal of order denying rule 3.800(a) motion from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; James I. Cohn, Judge; L.T. Case No. 96-13389 CF10A.

Larry Perkins, DeFuniak Springs, pro se.

No appearance required for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED without prejudice for the appellant to first exhaust his available administrative remedies through the Department of Corrections, and if that proves unsuccessful, he could then file in the circuit court a petition seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the DOC to credit him with the full amount of jail and prison time awarded by the trial court.See Rood v. State, 790 So.2d 1192 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001).

POLEN, C.J., FARMER and TAYLOR, JJ., concur.