KEITH ERROL HOGARTH, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 2007-12-17
No. 1D06-6427
POLSTON, HAWKES, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.
970 So. 2d 880 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (2007)


Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The appellant challenges the trial court’s order denying his petition for writ of habe-as corpus which was treated as a rule 3.850 motion. Because the trial court’s order was issued while the appellant’s direct appeal of judgment and sentence was pending, we reverse.

The trial court erred in ruling on the appellant’s motion for postconviction relief while the appellant’s case was the subject of a pending direct appeal. See McDaniel v. State, 789 So. 2d 1223, 1224 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001). Instead, the trial court should have dismissed the motion with leave to refile after the direct appeal was final. See Matthews v. State, 889 So. 2d 893 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004).

Accordingly, the trial court’s order is reversed and the cause remanded to the trial court with instructions to dismiss the appellant’s motion for lack of jurisdiction without prejudice.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

POLSTON, HAWKES, and THOMAS, JJ., concur.


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