ADALBERTO RAMOS, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Adalberto Ramos appealed the trial court's denial of his Rule 3.850 motion for post-conviction relief. The appellate court reversed and remanded because the trial court failed to consider Ramos's amended motion despite agreeing to do so, requiring the trial court to evaluate all claims from both the original and amended motions collectively.
The trial court erred by entering an order denying only the original motion when it had agreed to consider the totality of claims raised in both the original and amended motions. The case is reversed and remanded for the trial court to reconsider all claims as originally planned.
[1] A trial court errs by failing to consider an amended motion when the parties and the court agreed to bifurcate proceedings and consider all claims collectively.
[2] A trial court may err by denying an amended motion without further hearing after agreeing to consider it.
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“holding that trial court erred in failing to continue the evidentiary hearing on the original 8.850 motion until such time as the claims raised in the amended motion could also be considered”
Establishes the controlling legal standard from Bradford that the trial court must consider amended motions before ruling on the original motion
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Adalberto Ramos appeals an order denying hisi motion filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. One of his claims is that the trial cohrt failed to consider his “amended” motion. We agree and reverse and remand for further review of both of appellant’s motions. See Bradford v. State, 701 So.2d 899 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997) (holding that trial court erred in failing to continue the evidentiary hearing on the original 8.850 motion until such time as the claims raised in the amended motion could also be considered),
The amended motion was first filed as a motion for new trial. .However, on-the day of the evidentiary hearing scheduled to consider the original rule 3.850 motion, appellant asked the trial court to treat the new trial motion as an amendment to his pending rule 3.850 motion.
After considerable discussion, the judge opted to bifurcate the proceedings and proceed as scheduled with the evidentiary hearing. All agreed at the commencement that this meant the State would have the opportunity to respond to issues within the amendment, and that the judge might have to reevaluate all of the claims when considering those points.1 This plan was restated at the end of the evidentiary hearing-
Notwithstanding the court’s plan to evaluate the claims collectively, it entered an order denying only the original motion. The written order advised appellant, that he had thirty days to file an appeal; he followed that advice.
Thereafter, the court ordered the state to respond to the amended motion. The state argued that the trial court lacked jurisdiction to entertain the motion because of the pending appeal and -that the amended motion was successive and insufficient. The court denied the amended motion based on that response without further hearing. -
Based on, the events as explained above, we reverse and remand for the trial court to proceed as it initially intended. Accordingly, “we find that a proper disposition of appellant’s claims on remand requires the tidal court to consider the totality of appellant’s claims raised in both the original and the amended motion.” Bradford, 701 So.2d at 900.
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings,
CIKLIN, G.J., WARNER and LEVINE, JJ., concur.
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Adalberto Ramos v. State, 264 So. 3d 180 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019)
Authorities Cited
- In re Amendments to the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure, 132 So. 3d 734 (Fla. 2013)
- G.R. v. Dep't of Child. & Fam. Servs., 701 So. 2d 899 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997)
- Bradford v. State, 701 So. 2d 899 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997)