Woodson v. State

Carlo a/k/a Carlos Woodson appeals an order of the Miami-Dade Circuit Court denying Woodson’s motion for post-conviction relief pursuant to rule 3.850 of the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. We affirm the trial court’s order, and issue an order to show cause as described below.

Woodson is serving a 45-year prison sentence after a 1996 conviction of one count of armed burglary and two counts of armed sexual battery. This Court affirmed his conviction on direct appeal in Woodson v. State, 739 So.2d 1210 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999).

In 2012, after Woodson had filed fifteen post-conviction appeals,…