Torres v. State

Benito Torres appeals two circuit court orders entered in connection with his efforts to obtain postconviction relief.

On August 3, 1989, Torres filed a motion pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. It is clear from the record on appeal that this was not Torres’s first 3.850 motion in this case, and he was attacking a conviction which became final in 1984. A “supplemental” motion was filed some days later. Neither of these pleadings, nor a later motion for rehearing, suggested any reason why the matters raised therein could not have been covered at an earlier time. Thus the…