Thomas v. State

Thomas filed a petition for writ of habe-as corpus on May 5, 2006. He is seeking relief that is not appropriate for a writ of habeas corpus relief. Johnson v. State, 589 So.2d 456 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991). It is *92not the purpose of the writ to determine sufficiency of the evidence nor the adequacy of a defense nor the justice of a detention on the merits, but only to determine whether the person is legally imprisoned or restrained of liberty.

In this case, Thomas fails to assert an illegal detention and there are other adequate remedies. Moore v. State, 784 So.2d 617 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001). In essence,…