Scottie D. Lowe v. State of Florida

In these consolidated postconviction appeals, Appellant seeks review of the trial court’s orders denying his pro se rule 3.800(a) motion seeking additional jail credit in case numbers 2007-CF-4046 and 2013-CF-1708. Although the trial court properly treated the motion as having been filed under rule 3.801, we quash the orders denying the motion because the trial court lacked jurisdiction to rule on the motion while the direct appeal of Appellant’s judgment - and sentence in these cases was pending in this court. See Day v. State, 770 So.2d 1262 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000) (affirming order dismissing…