TORIC YEARBY
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 4th DCA | 2025-07-02
No. 2025-0984
Fein, J., Damoorgian, J., Gerber, J., Levine, J.
2025 FL 5592 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2025)

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Holding

A change in law established by Erlinger v. United States does not apply retroactively to cases already final on direct appeal.


Headnotes

[1] A change in law established by subsequent appellate decision does not apply retroactively to cases in which the judgment is already final on direct appeal.

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Toric Yearby filed a rule 3.800 motion in a criminal case from 1999. The trial court denied the motion.…

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Opinion of the Court
Levine

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA

FOURTH DISTRICT

TORIC YEARBY, Appellant,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

No. 4D2025-0984

[July 2, 2025]

Appeal of order denying rule 3.800 motion from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Martin S. Fein, Judge; L.T. Case No. 99-011337-CF10A.

Toric Yearby, Trenton, pro se.

No appearance for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Wainwright v. State, No. SC2025-0708, 2025 WL 1561151 (Fla. June 3, 2025) (holding that even if Erlinger v. United States, 602 U.S. 821 (2024), constitutes a change of law, it does not apply retroactively).

DAMOORGIAN, GERBER and LEVINE, JJ., concur.

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