DUANE WALKER
v.
STATE

Fla. 3d DCA | 2021-03-17
No. 21-0423
Emas, C.J., Fernandez, J., Miller, J., James, J.
Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2021)

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Holding

A defect in a charging document that omits a required element for sentencing enhancement is cured by the defendant's explicit waiver of such defect during the plea colloquy.


Headnotes

[1] A defect in a charging document that omits a required element for sentencing enhancement is cured when the defendant explicitly waives the defect during the plea colloquy…

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“defect in the charging document, which omitted a required element for sentencing enhancement, was cured by defendant's explicit waiver of such defect during plea colloquy”

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Facts & Procedural History

Duane Walker appealed from a circuit court decision in Miami-Dade County. The appeal involved a charging document defect and a successive motion under…

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Bradley v. State, 3 So. 3d 1168 (Fla. 2009) (holding that defect in the charging document, which omitted a required element for sentencing enhancement, was cured by defendant’s explicit waiver of such defect during plea colloquy); Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.850(h)(2) (providing: “A second or successive motion is an extraordinary pleading. Accordingly, a court may dismiss a second or successive motion if the court finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits or, if new and different grounds are alleged, the judge finds that the failure of the defendant or the attorney to assert those grounds in a prior motion constituted an abuse of the procedure or there was no good cause for the failure of the defendant or defendant's counsel to have asserted those grounds in a prior motion.”)

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