Cooper v. State

By habeas petition, Jerome Anthony Cooper (a/k/a Anthony Jerome Cooper, Inmate No. 065615), alleges that his sentence *980in Duval County Case No. 88-2488CF is illegal under Hale v. State, 630 So.2d 521 (Fla.1993). This exact same claim has been previously rejected on the merits and, thus, the current petition is barred by res judicata and the holding in Baker v. State, 878 So.2d 1236 (Fla.2004).

Cooper is serving a combined 30-year sentence on his 1988 case. This sentence is consecutive to the life sentence he received in Duval County Case No. 78-349CF. The offenses in the 1988 case were…