CEDRIC WARREN
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA

Fla. 5th DCA | 2023-05-19
No. 23-0567
Florida District Court of Appeal, Fifth District (2023)

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Holding

A court may prohibit a pro se litigant from filing further pleadings regarding a specific case when the litigant has engaged in abusive, repetitive, malicious, or frivolous filings.


Headnotes

[1] A litigant engaging in a pattern of abusive, repetitive, malicious, or frivolous pro se filings attacking a judgment and sentence may be prohibited from filing future pro…

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“Enough is enough.”

The court cited this phrase from Isley v. State in justifying the prohibition on future pro se filings.

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Cedric Warren, an inmate representing himself, filed multiple pro se pleadings attacking his judgment and sentence from a 2001 Volusia County criminal…

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Due to Petitioner’s apparent abuse of the legal process by his abusive, repetitive, malicious, or frivolous pro se filings attacking his judgment and sentence in Volusia County Circuit Court Case No. 2001-36396-CFAES, this Court issued an order directing Petitioner to show cause why he should not be prohibited from future pro se filings. See State v. Spencer, 751 So. 2d 47, 48 (Fla. 1999). Having received no response, we conclude that Petitioner is abusing the judicial process and should be barred from further pro se filings.

Therefore, in order to conserve judicial resources, the Clerk of this Court is directed not to accept any further pro se filings concerning the above referenced case. Any future filings regarding the referenced case will be summarily rejected by the Clerk unless filed by a member in good standing of The Florida Bar. See Isley v. State, 652 So. 2d 409, 411 (Fla. 5th DCA 1995) (“Enough is enough.”). The Clerk is further directed to forward a certified copy of this opinion to the appropriate institution for consideration of disciplinary proceedings. See § 944.279(1), Fla. Stat. (2023); Simpkins v. State, 909 So. 2d 427, 428 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005).

FUTURE PRO SE FILINGS PROHIBITED.

EISNAUGLE, HARRIS and KILBANE, JJ., concur.


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