DAVID JEROME, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 2011-07-27
No. 3D11-1520
Before SUAREZ, CORTIÑAS, and EMAS, JJ.
99 So. 3d 529 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2011)

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Holding

The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to correct sentence as it was without merit and raised identical claims previously denied.


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The defendant filed a motion to correct sentence pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). This motion raised claims identical to those…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

David Jerome seeks review of the trial court’s order denying his Motion to Correct Sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a). Jerome’s motion is without merit, and the trial court properly denied it.

We observe that Jerome has raised the identical claims in several previous-filed postconviction motions, and the trial court’s denial of those claims has been affirmed on appeal.1 Jerome should be aware that the repeated filing of successive postconvietion motions, raising identical claims which have been denied on the merits and affirmed on appeal, is not without consequence. See State v. Spencer, 751 So.2d 47 (Fla.1999) (holding that a party who abuses the judicial process by filing repetitious and frivolous pleadings may,

upon proper notice, be denied further pro se access to the courts); Section 944.279(1), Florida Statutes (“A prisoner who is found by a court to have brought a frivolous or malicious ... collateral criminal proceeding ... is subject to disciplinary procedures pursuant to the rules of the Department of Corrections.”); Fla. Admin. Code R. 33-601.104 (establishing procedures by which the Department of Corrections may withhold or forfeit a prisoner’s gain time).

Affirmed.


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