BASCOM HALEY PIPPIN, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 1993-04-20
No. 92-4174
JOANOS, C.J., and BOOTH and WEBSTER, JJ., concur.
616 So. 2d 1182 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (1993) Positive Treatment
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Holding

The court held that the failure to inform a movant of their right to appeal a postconviction relief denial warrants granting a belated appeal.


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Pippin's prior motion for postconviction relief was denied, and the order did not inform him of his right to appeal. Pippin later sought a belated app…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Bascom Haley Pippin has appealed an order of the trial court summarily denying his motion for postconviction relief pursuant to Rule 3.850, Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure. The motion sought a belated appeal of the trial court’s November 7, 1991 order denying a previous 3.850 motion alleging ineffective assistance of counsel.

We reverse, and remand with directions to grant Pippin a belated appeal of the November 7, 1991 order.

In September 1988, Pippin was convicted of capital sexual battery, and sentenced to life with a 25 year minimum mandatory term.

In March 1991, after voluntarily dismissing his appeal, Pippin filed a 3.850 motion alleging ineffective assistance of counsel.

The trial court denied the motion by order of November 7, 1991, which order did not inform Pippin that he had 30 days in which to appeal.

On May 29, 1992, Pippin filed the instant motion seeking a belated appeal of the November 7, 1991 order, alleging that he did not receive it until January 1992.

The trial court denied the motion without explanation.

All orders denying motions for postcon-viction relief shall include a statement that the movant has the right to appeal within 30 days of the rendition of the order. Rule 3.850, Fla.R.Crim.P. The failure to include such a statement warrants the granting of a belated appeal. See, e.g., Darden v. State, 588 So. 2d 275 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991). As noted above, the trial court’s November 7, 1991 order did not set forth the right to appeal within 30 days. The instant motion seeking a belated appeal of that order should therefore have been granted. We reverse, and remand with directions to grant Pippin a belated appeal of the November 7, 1991 order, which shall proceed in accordance with Rule 9.140(g), Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure.

JOANOS, C.J., and BOOTH and WEBSTER, JJ., concur.


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  • Haley Bascom Pippin v. State, 626 So. 2d 1091 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993)
    …of the 1991 order. The trial court denied the motion without explanation, which denial was reversed by this court on appeal in an opinion remanding the cause with directions to grant Appellant a belated appeal of the 1991 order. See Pippin v. State, 616 So. 2d 1182 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993).…
  • Arizmendi v. State, 894 So. 2d 309 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005)
    …al Procedure 3.850(g).1 A criminal defendant is entitled to a belated appeal when an order denying relief pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850 fails to inform the defendant of the right to appeal within thirty days. Pippin v. State, 616 So. 2d 1182, 1182 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993) (finding that failure to include a statement in an order denying motion for postconviction relief that movant had a right to appeal within [*310] thirty days of rendition of order warranted granting of belated appeal); Dard…
  • Oswald Cuffy v. State, 720 So. 2d 296 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998)
    …CURIAM. The petition for writ of habeas corpus for a belated appeal of the order of October 1, 1996, which denied petitioner’s motion for post-conviction relief in Suwannee County Circuit Court Case No. 93-140-CF, is granted. See Pippin v. State, 616 So. 2d 1182 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993). Upon issuance of mandate in this cause, a copy of this opinion shall be provided to the clerk of the lower tribunal for treatment as a notice of appeal. See Fla. R.App. P. 9.140(j)(5)(D). BARFIELD, C.J., and JOANOS and MINER,…

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