Legal Opinion

Johnson v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided February 13, 2009No. 5D08-3449Published

1Per curiam

Appellant filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the lower court. Although not a model of clarity, it appears that Appellant’s petition is a collateral attack on his judgment and sentence based upon ineffective assistance of counsel. The trial court dismissed the petition because it was not filed in the county where Appellant is incarcerated. This was error. Batista v. State, 993 So.2d 93 (Fla. 5th DCA 2008). Because we are unable to determine from the limited record whether Appellant’s petition was successive or time barred under rule 3.850, we remand this cause to the lower court for…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Batista v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2008

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