Golfe v. State

We consolidate these three cases for resolution by the same panel and for record and opinion purposes. We affirm the trial court’s denial of appellant’s frivolous postconviction challenges and determine that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in imposing sanctions.

In 2007, appellant entered a negotiated no contest plea to various drug offenses in two underlying cases in exchange for an eight-year sentence. Appellant failed to appear at sentencing, and pursuant to the terms of the plea, he was sentenced in absentia to sixty years in prison. He subsequently turned himself in and moved…