PETER L. BRINSON, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 2d DCA | 2010-01-20
No. 2D09-3243
NORTHCUTT and CRENSHAW, JJ., Concur.
25 So. 3d 1255 Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (2010) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

Peter Brinson appealed an order denying his motion to accept a Rule 3.850 postconviction motion as timely filed. The appellate court reversed because the trial court's order lacked adequate record attachments to support its denial, and the court could not determine whether Brinson's alleged January 2005 filing would have been timely or properly within the trial court's jurisdiction.


Holding

The court reversed the trial court's denial because the order lacked attachments from the record necessary to support the denial. The court could not determine from the record whether the motion allegedly filed in January 2005 existed, whether it would have been timely, or whether it would have properly invoked the trial court's jurisdiction to consider a second postconviction motion raising new issues.


Headnotes

[1] An order denying a postconviction motion must contain adequate attachments from the record to support the order.

[2] A trial court has concurrent jurisdiction to consider a second postconviction motion raising new issues unrelated to a pending appeal of a prior postconviction order.

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“A trial court has concurrent jurisdiction during the pendency of an appeal of a postconviction order to consider a second postconviction motion that raises new issues unrelated to the issues presented in the motion that is pending on appeal.”

Establishes that the trial court's blanket assertion of lack of jurisdiction was incorrect as a matter of law.

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Facts & Procedural History

Brinson was convicted in 2001 of four counts of possession of cocaine and four counts of sale of cocaine, and is serving concurrent thirty-year senten…

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Opinion of the Court
ALTENBERND, Judge.

*1256ALTENBERND, Judge.

Peter L. Brinson appeals an order denying a postconviction motion entitled “Motion to Accept Rule 3.850 as Timely Filed.” We reverse and remand for further proceedings because the order on appeal does not contain adequate attachments from the record to support the order.

Mr. Brinson was tried by jury in 2001 and convicted of four counts of possession of cocaine and four counts of sale of cocaine. He is serving concurrent thirty-year sentences as a habitual offender for the four counts of sale of cocaine. This court affirmed his direct appeal in 2003, issuing mandate on February 25, 2003. Brinson v. State, 838 So.2d 1154 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003) (table decision).

Since mandate issued in his direct appeal, Mr. Brinson has filed various post-conviction motions.1 In case number 2D03-5110, we reversed an order denying his first motion for postconviction relief, filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850, and remanded for further proceedings. Brinson v. State, 873 So.2d 505 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004). Following those proceedings, the motion was again denied and this court affirmed that denial in February 2005, issuing mandate on March 3, 2005. Brinson v. State, 896 So.2d 753 (Fla. 2d DCA 2005) (table decision).

In the motion at issue in this appeal, Mr. Brinson claims he filed yet another motion for postconviction relief on January 12, 2005. He allegedly filed two notices of inquiry about this motion before receiving a response from the clerk of court in March 2009 notifying him that the clerk had no such motion on file. Shortly after he allegedly received this notice, he filed the motion to accept his rule 3.850 motion as timely filed. That motion is in our record. It asks the trial court to “consider this accompanying Rule 3.850 motion.” No such accompanying motion is in our record.

The trial court denied the motion to accept the earlier motion as timely, describing some of the earlier proceedings. This order has no attachments and we are not certain whether the trial court had an “accompanying motion” or not. The trial court denied the motion, claiming that it would have been without jurisdiction to consider this second motion if it had been filed in January 2005 because the order denying the first motion for postconviction relief was pending on appeal at that time. This ruling is at least an overstatement. A trial court has concurrent jurisdiction during the pendency of an appeal of a postconviction order to consider a second postconviction motion that raises new issues unrelated to the issues presented in the motion that is pending on appeal. See Wheeler v. State, 918 So.2d 369 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005). We cannot tell from our record whether the motion allegedly filed in January 2005 would have properly invoked the trial court’s jurisdiction.

The trial court also denied the motion on the grounds that it would have been both untimely and successive. Mr. Brinson responded with a motion for rehearing, arguing that a motion in January 2005 would not have been untimely and that his grounds for relief involved newly discovered evidence that he received from his trial attorney shortly before he allegedly filed the motion in January 2005.

We are hampered by the fact that we have no copy of the motion allegedly filed in January 2005. We do not know whether the original or any copy exists either in the court records or Mr. Brin-son’s personal records. Based exclusively *1257on the record before us, we must assume that Mr. Brinson mailed a timely second postconviction motion to the court in January 2005 and that the motion contained new claims based on newly discovered evidence. The order on appeal without attachments does not refute those allegations or otherwise contain a legal basis to deny the motion to accept the second motion as timely filed.

Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.

NORTHCUTT and CRENSHAW, JJ., Concur.


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  • Bryant v. State, 102 So. 3d 660 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012)
    …that concurrent jurisdiction exists when the second postconviction motion raises new issues unrelated to those raised in the first motion, regardless of the type of motion. See Smith v. State, 34 So. 3d 818, 818 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010); Brinson v. State, 25 So. 3d 1255, 1256 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010). In Smith, 34 So. 3d at 818, this court suggested that unless a motion qualifies to be dismissed as successive, the trial court has concurrent jurisdiction to rule on the motion. Shortly thereafter, the Fifth District follow…
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  • Smith v. State, 34 So. 3d 818 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010)
    …rt has concurrent jurisdiction during the pendency of an appeal of a postconviction order to consider a second postconviction motion that raises new issues unrelated to the issues presented in the motion that is pending on appeal.” Brinson v. State, 25 So. 3d 1255, 1256 (Fla. 2d DCA 2010) (citing Wheeler v. State, 918 So. 2d 369 (Fla. 1st DCA 2005)). Reversed and remanded. ALTENBERND and WALLACE, JJ., Concur.…

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