Legal Opinion

Hankins v. State

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided December 19, 2012No. 4D12-3180Published

1Per curiam

The petitioner was ordered to show cause why sanctions should not be imposed for having filed an untimely, meritless, and successive post-conviction challenge. State v. Spencer, 751 So.2d 47 (Fla.1999). We have considered petitioner’s response that lack of access to “inmate writ writers” or “jailhouse law clerks” has prevented him from timely raising this claim. We find that the response does not excuse the petitioner’s frivolous filing and abuse of post-conviction relief process in this case.

Since his 1994 conviction was affirmed, petitioner has filed no less than eleven pro se proceedings…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. State v. SpencerSupreme Court of Florida · 1999
  2. McCutcheon v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2010
  3. Hankins v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1996

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