Shelton v. State

Steven Lane Shelton (“Shelton”) appeals the trial court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, which was denied based on the trial court’s conclusion that the petition had been previously ruled on and transferred to the Nineteenth Circuit. We reverse. Although the record reflects that the Miami-Dade circuit court did transfer Shelton’s petition to the Nineteenth Circuit, believing jurisdiction was where Shelton was incarcerated, the Nineteenth Circuit correctly determined that because Shelton was challenging the sentence originally imposed in Miami-Dade County, not the propriety…