VICTOR ESTEBAN HERRERA GUTIERREZ
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2026-08-14
No. 2026-0928
Cotton, J., Lambert, J., Boatwright, J., Kilbane, J.
2026 FL 10455 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2026)

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Holding

A county court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to proceed when no valid charging documents have been filed.


Headnotes

[1] A county court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to proceed when no valid charging documents have been filed, and such jurisdictional defect may be raised on appeal and c…

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Victor Esteban Herrera Gutierrez was convicted and sentenced in Marion County. The State subsequently confessed error regarding the validity of the ch…

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Opinion of the Court

FIFTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL

STATE OF FLORIDA

Case Nos. 5D2026-0928 5D2026-0930 LT Case Nos. 42-2025-MM-8866-A 42-2025-MM-8955-A

VICTOR ESTEBAN HERRERA

GUTIERREZ, Appellant,

V.

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.

On appeal from the County Court for Marion County. Lori Cotton, Judge.

Matthew J. Metz, Public Defender, and Ali Lee Hansen, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.

James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Deborah A. Chance, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

August 14, 2026

ON CONFESSION OF ERROR

Appellant, Victor Esteban Herrera Gutierrez, appeals his judgments and sentences. Appellant argues that the county court lacked subject matter jurisdiction because no valid charging documents were ever filed. Appellee has filed a confession of error. We accept the confession of error, reverse the judgments, sentences, and liens, and remand for further proceedings.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

LAMBERT, BOATWRIGHT, and KILBANE, J.J., concur.


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