Jose M. Rafael v. Michael D. Crews, Secretary, Department of Corrections and Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General

Jose Rafael appeals pro se the non-final Order Transferring Petition for Habeas Corpus to the Twentieth Judicial Circuit. Because appellant’s petition for habeas corpus relief is unauthorized as a means to relitigate issues which could have been or were raised on appeal or in a Rule 3.850 postconviction motion, the trial court should have dismissed the instant petition as unauthorized.

Appellant was convicted of possession of heroin and sentenced by the circuit court in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit to a mandatory minimum of twenty-five years in prison. In 2007, he appealed the judgment to…