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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Broadus STALLINGS, Petitioner, v. STATE of Florida, Respondent.
    No. 5D16-316.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    June 3, 2016.
    Broadus Stallings, Lake City, pro se.
    Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Kaylee Tatman Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Respondent.
   PER CURIAM.

Broadus Stallings petitions this Court seeking a belated appeal. His petition is precluded, however, by his prior timely appeal. See Stallings v. State, 172 So.3d 886 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015). While Stall-ings’s intent in filing the petition might have been to challenge the effectiveness of his appellate counsel, a petition seeking a belated appeal is not the proper vehicle for such a challenge. See Rutherford v. Moore, 774 So.2d 637, 643 (Fla.2000) (explaining that habeas petitions are the proper means to present claims of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel).

PETITION DISMISSED.

TORPY, COHEN and WALLIS, JJ., concur.