JONNIE RAVON
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 3d DCA | 2025-10-22
No. 2025-1206
Gonzaléz-Marqués, J., Lindsey, J., Gordo, J., Gooden, J.
2025 FL 9307 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2025)

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Holding

A defendant is barred from raising the same illegal sentence claim in successive postconviction motions when the issue has already been adjudicated on the merits and affirmed on appeal.

Headnotes

[1] Successive postconviction motions raising claims nearly identical to claims previously rejected on the merits and affirmed on appeal are properly denied under the law of…

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Key Quotes

“[T]he law of the case doctrine prevents a litigant from relitigating the same issues previously considered and rejected on the merits and reviewed on appeal.”

Citation to Swain v. State, 911 So. 2d 140, 143-44 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005)
Facts & Procedural History

Ravon, a defendant, filed a Rule 3.800(a) motion to correct an illegal sentence. The same issue had been raised and ruled upon by the trial court on A…

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Topics
Manifest Injustice Standard Florida Rule Of Appellate Procedure 9.141(B)(2) Florida Rule Of Criminal Procedure 3.800(A) Motion To Correct Illegal Sentence Florida Rule Of Criminal Procedure 3.800(A)

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Opinion of the Court
Gooden

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed October 22, 2025. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D25-1206 Lower Tribunal No. F98-39479C ________________

Jonnie Ravon, Appellant,

vs.

State of Florida, Appellee.

An Appeal under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.141(b)(2) from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Laura Maria Gonzaléz-Marqués, Judge.

Jonnie Ravon, in proper person.

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, and David Llanes, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Before LINDSEY, GORDO, and GOODEN, JJ.

LINDSEY, J.

Footnotes
2 Appellant, Defendant below, Jonnie Ravon, appeals the summary denial of a Rule 3.800(a) Motion to Correct Illegal Sentence. This same issue was raised and ruled on below in an order entered on August 1, 2014, and our Court affirmed that order the following year. See Ravon v. State, 159 So. 3d 945, 945 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015). Because defendants are not permitted to raise similar claims in more than one motion, we are constrained to affirm. See Swain v. State, 911 So. 2d 140, 143-44 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005) (“[T]he law of the case doctrine prevents a litigant from relitigating the same issues previously considered and rejected on the merits and reviewed on appeal.”); McGee v. State, 327 So. 3d 382, 383 (Fla. 3d DCA 2021) (“Finding that the issue raised before the lower tribunal was squarely adjudicated by way of a previously affirmed court order, and McGee has failed to demonstrate manifest injustice capable of determination from the face of the record, we affirm.”). Moreover, successive postconviction proceedings raising claims nearly identical to claims previously rejected are properly denied. See Butler v. State, 95 So. 3d 294, 295 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012) (citing Hepburn v. State, 934 So. 2d 515 (Fla. 3d DCA 2005)); McGee, 327 So. 3d at 383. Affirmed.

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