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Trotter v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Dec 16, 1999
746 So. 2d 1208 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

Opinion

No. 99-2469.

Opinion filed December 16, 1999.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Escambia County, Nickolas P. Geeker, Judge.

Appellant, pro se.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Giselle Lylen Rivera, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.


In this appeal of the dismissal of a pro se motion to correct illegal sentence, filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a), appellant claims that his scoresheet was incorrectly calculated. The trial court dismissed the motion for lack of jurisdiction, stating that appellant's earlier 3.800 motion, raising substantially the same claims, was pending on appeal. See Jordon v. State, 631 So.2d 362 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994). However, the appeal upon which the trial court based its dismissal had already been dismissed by this court. The trial court did have jurisdiction to consider the motion at the time appellant filed the present motion. Accordingly, we reverse and remand the matter to the trial court for consideration of the motion.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

BOOTH, MINER, and KAHN, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Trotter v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District
Dec 16, 1999
746 So. 2d 1208 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)
Case details for

Trotter v. State

Case Details

Full title:WASHINGTON TROTTER, Appellant, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Dec 16, 1999

Citations

746 So. 2d 1208 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)