DONTAVION KING
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2018-12-21
No. 18-1715
Lubet, J., Orfinger, J., Torpy, J., Berger, J.
261 So. 3d 744 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2018)

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Holding

A postconviction relief motion that is not contained in the appellate record and cannot be located by the trial court, clerk, or State must be reversed and remanded to permit re-filing.


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Dontavion King filed a motion for postconviction relief under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. The motion could not be located in the record …

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Opinion of the Court
Berger

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO

FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND

DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

DONTAVION KING,

Appellant,

v. Case No. 5D18-1715

STATE OF FLORIDA,

Appellee.

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Opinion filed December 21, 2018

3.850 Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County, Marc L. Lubet, Judge.

Dontavion King, Century, pro se.

Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Carmen F. Corrente, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

The motion for postconviction relief under review is not contained within the record and cannot be located by the lower court, the lower court clerk or the State. Accordingly, this cause is reversed and remanded with directions that Appellant be permitted to re-file an amended motion within thirty days after the mandate issues, upon which the trial court shall render a ruling. See Peraza v. State, 920 So. 2d 188 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006).

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REVERSED AND REMANDED.

ORFINGER, TORPY and BERGER, JJ., concur.


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