Zuluaga v. State, Dept. of Corrections

Heldrado Zuluaga appeals the dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus by the Third Judicial Circuit Court in Hamilton County. The appellant is serving a sentence imposed in 1994 by the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in Broward County. His petition for writ of habeas corpus sought immediate release from Hamilton Correctional Institution, based upon his assertion that his sentence exceeds the legal maximum sentence. In its order, the trial court ruled that the petition raised a collateral attack on the sentence, that ha-beas corpus was not available as a substitute for postconviction…