Oscar v. Florida Department of Corrections

973 So.2d 596 (2008)

Ronel OSCAR, Appellant,

v.

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Appellee.

No. 1D07-3359.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 18, 2008.

Ronel Oscar, pro se, Appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, and Shelly L. Marks, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee.

By petition for writ of certiorari, Oscar seeks review of an order denying his petition for writ of mandamus filed in the circuit court seeking a transfer to another correctional institution. Because the petition filed in the lower tribunal was a "true" mandamus petition in that the…