Case ID: so2d_799/html/1091-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sam SADLER, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 2D01-2275.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    Oct. 26, 2001.
   THREADGILL, Judge.

Sam Sadler appeals the trial court’s summary denial of his motion for postcon-viction relief filed pursuant to Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We treat Sadler’s motion as a petition for writ of habeas corpus seeking leave to file a belated postconviction motion and reverse. On remand the trial court shall conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Sadler retained counsel to timely file a rule 3.850 motion and whether counsel failed to timely file such a motion. See Steele v. Kehoe, 747 So.2d 931 (Fla.1999).

Reversed and remanded.

BLUE, C.J., and DAVIS, J., Concur.