ARIEL HERNANDEZ, APPELLANT,
v.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 2017-10-04
No. 3D16-2240
Before LAGOA, SCALES and LUCK, JJ...
230 So. 3d 509 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2017)

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Holding

The appellate court summarily affirmed the trial court's denial of the motion to extend the appeal period.


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Hernandez, incarcerated after pleading guilty to murder and sexual battery, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus which was denied. Believing he …

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Opinion of the Court
SCALES, J.

SCALES, J.

Appellant Ariel Hernandez is incarcerated, having pled guilty, in 2012, to second degree murder and sexual battery. In 2015, Hernandez filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus. The trial court denied the petition in ah order rendered on July 7, 2016. Upon his recéipt of this order; Hernandez mistakenly believed that he was too late to file an appeal. Instead, Hernandez filed-a motion in the trial court to extend his-appeal period, which the'trial court denied on August 24, 2016.1 Hernandez timely appealed the trial court’s denial of this motion.

Pursuant to Florida Appellate Procedure Rule 9.315(a), we shmmarily affirm the order of the trial court. We do so without prejudice to Hernandez' filing an appropriate petition for belated appeal of *510the July 7, 2016 order. Accordingly, we deny as moot the State’s motion to dismiss.

Affirmed.


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