Sullivan v. State

The appellant seeks review of the trial court’s summary denial of his motion for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. The appellant initially faced three separate charges, but Count I was severed from Counts II and III. Because the case was severed, the lower court conducted separate proceedings, and the judgments and sentences were entered and became final on separate dates.

The appellant filed the instant rule 3.850 motion to attack the judgments and sentences in Counts II and III. The trial court denied the appellant’s motion as successive…