Patrick Placide v. State of Florida

PER CURIAM;

We affirm the trial court’s summary denial of Patrick Placide’s untimely and successive motion for postconviction relief. Placide’s motion claimed that he has recently discovered new evidence that jurors allegedly engaged in misconduct during his trial in 1992. We conclude that the affidavit alleged to constitute the new evidence is inherently incredible and not properly sworn. In addition, Placide fails to establish a valid exception to the time limitation, as he does not show that he exercised any diligence in investigating this claim, which could have been discovered with due…