AMANDA BEVERLY, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE
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Amanda Beverly appealed her conviction following a nolo contendere plea, claiming she had reserved the right to appeal the trial court's denial of her motion to suppress. The Florida First District Court of Appeal held that absent a proper record demonstrating the plea was conditioned on reservation of appellate rights, the appeal could not proceed and the conviction would be affirmed.
A nolo contendere plea may be accepted conditioned upon reservation for appellate review of a question of law only when the record clearly reflects such conditioning. An affidavit stating the defendant's intent to appeal does not constitute a proper supplement to the record or meet the test of State v. Ashby. Beverly was given until November 29, 1975 to file a supplemental record demonstrating the conditional nature of her plea; failing which, the judgment would be affirmed.
[1] A plea of nolo contendere may be accepted conditioned upon a reservation for appellate review of a question of law.
[2] A plea of nolo contendere is not conditioned upon a reservation of appellate review when the record does not indicate such a condition was made.
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PER CURIAM.
Appeal was taken herein from a judgment and sentence following a plea of nolo contendere which alledegly immediately followed an order denying a motion to suppress. The Supreme Court of Florida held in State v. Ashby, Sup.Ct.Fla.1971, 245 So. 2d 225, that a plea of nolo contendere may be accepted, conditioned upon reservation for appellate review of a question of law. Sub judice appellant candidly conceded that the record in this case contained no indication that the plea was conditioned upon the reservation of a question of law. This Court subsequently, upon appropriate motion, entered an order staying further proceedings for a period of 30 days in order to allow appellant an opportunity to supplement or perfect the record on appeal, demonstrating that the plea of nolo con-tendere was conditioned upon reservation of right of appeal on a question of law incident to the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion to suppress. Appellant has now filed herein a motion entitled “Motion To Proceed With Appeal in which he requests this Court to consider this case as a “Hollingshead Appeal” (see Hollingshead v. Wainwright, Sup.Ct.Fla.1967, 194 So. 2d 577), citing this Court’s opinion in Farrell v. State, Fla.App.1st 1975, 317 So. 2d 142.
Appellant has apparently misconstrued our opinion on rehearing in the Farrell case. In that case we initially affirmed the trial court on the basis that the record on appeal did not reveal that appellants had conditioned their pleas of nolo contendere on the reservation of a right to seek appellate review of a question of law. By petition for rehearing defendant Farrell alleged that the omission from the record on appeal resulted from a clerical error and the co-defendant Raulerson alleged that the. failure of the record on appeal to reflect the reservation of right to appellate review resulted from an oversight of his attorney, the public defender, and requested this Court to consider the case on its merits in accordance with Hollingshead v. Wainwright, supra. Since we thereupon proceeded to consider the case on its merits, appellant sub judice has concluded that we did so under authority of Hollingshead v. Wainwright. Such is not the case. Examination of the record of that case reveals that the appellants filed a supplemental record (pursuant to appropriate motion and order) which revealed the reservation of the right.
Sub judice appellant has filed an affidavit attached to his above mentioned motion which, however, does not constitute a supplement to the record nor does its recitation meet the test of State v. Ashby, supra. Although that affidavit recites that at the time of the entry of the plea of nolo con-tendere the defendant “intended” to appeal the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress there is no allegation that the entry of the plea was so conditioned.
Accordingly, appellant’s “Motion To Proceed With Appeal” is denied and appellant is allowed to and until November 29, 1975 within which to file a supplemental record reflecting that his plea of nolo contendere was conditioned upon a reservation of right to appellate review of a question of law as permitted by State v. Ashby, supra; failing which this Court will have no alternative but to affirm the judgment and sentence here appealed, as a nolo contendere plea admits all facts which are well pleaded and waives all formal defects in the proceeding of which the accused could have availed himself by a plea of not guilty or motion to quash. (Peel v. State, Fla.App.2nd 1963, 150 So. 2d 281).
It is so ordered.
BOYER, C. J., and MILLS and Mc-CORD, JJ., concur.
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Boddie v. State, 328 So. 2d 877 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976)…reveal any attempt to supplement the record by stipulation between the parties as to whether or not there was any such reservation. Neither does there even appear in the record any affidavit of his attorney (see Beverly v. State, Fla.App. 1st, 1975, 322 So. 2d 597). Accordingly, of the Court’s own motion, appellant is allowed to and until March 1, 1976, within which to file a supplemental record reflecting that his plea of nolo contendere was in fact conditioned on a reservation of right to appeal, failing s…
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Vance v. State, 338 So. 2d 51 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976)…PER CURIAM. Affirmed on the authority of Chesebrough v. State, 255 So. 2d 675 (Fla.1971); State v. Ashby, 245 So. 2d 225 (Fla.1971); Beverly v. State, 322 So. 2d 597 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975); State v. Vinson, 320 So. 2d 50 (Fla.2d DCA 1975); and Giannetta v. State, 296 So. 2d 654 (Fla.2d DCA 1974).…
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Beverly v. State, 330 So. 2d 515 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976)…PER CURIAM. By per curiam order filed hereon on November 24, 1975, (Beverly v. State, Fla.App. 1st 1975, 322 So. 2d 597) we allowed appellant until November 29, 1975, within which to file a supplemental record reflecting that his plea of nolo contendere was conditioned upon a reservation or right to appellate review of a question of law as permitted by State v. Ashby…
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- State v. Ashby, 245 So. 2d 225 (Fla. 1971)
- Cleveland Hollingshead v. Louie L. Wainwright, 194 So. 2d 577 (Fla. 1967)
- Peel v. State, 150 So. 2d 281 (Fla. 2d DCA 1963)
- Farrell v. State, 317 So. 2d 142 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975)