DEXTER C. NEWSON
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2022-08-19
No. 22-1522
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2022)

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Holding

A petition for belated appeal may be granted and the appellate court's opinion can serve as notice of appeal from a trial court's order denying a motion to correct an illegal sentence.


Headnotes

[1] An appellate court's opinion on a granted petition for belated appeal may be filed with the trial court and treated as notice of appeal from the underlying order being ap…

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Facts & Procedural History

Dexter C. Newson sought a belated appeal from a November 18, 2021 order in which the trial court denied his motion to correct an illegal sentence file…

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM. The petition for belated appeal is granted. A copy of this opinion shall

be filed with the trial court and treated as the notice of appeal from the

November 18, 2021 order denying Petitioner’s motion to correct illegal

sentence filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.800(a),

rendered in Case No. 2009-CF-000138-A-X, in the Circuit Court in and for

Marion County, Florida. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.141(c)(6)(D).

PETITION GRANTED. EVANDER, EDWARDS and EISNAUGLE, JJ., concur.


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